Florida · Nonprofit
ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC
ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC (Florida) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,007 to it, the largest being RAYS BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC ($117,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $309k
- Net assets
- $382k
What Academy Prep Center of Lakeland Inc does
Mission
To inspire and empower students qualifying for need-based scholarships to become future community leaders through a rigorous middle school program coupled with ongoing graduate support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Academy prep center of lakeland, established in june 2019, is the third campus added to the academy prep organization. It joins its sister campuses in providing a rigorous, tuition-free, private, nonprofit middle school education for students from low-income communities in lakeland, florida. The campus is committed to preparing scholars for success in high school, college, and beyond through high academic expectations, character development, and long-term student support. (continued on schedule o) this also includes an exemplary college preparatory middle school education with extended days, weeks, and school years coupled with a wide array of enrichment activities and services. Through our graduate support services program, academy prep continues to support our graduates in high school, college, and into their careers, ensuring successful transitions into each phase of their lives. Academy prep students attend school up to 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, 11 months a year, with classes of approximately 20 students or less. Academy prep offers a unique combination of demanding academics and enrichment activities that offer growth opportunities. In addition to rigorous education in…
$2,656,898 spent$1,018,009 earned by the program100% of program spendingGraduate support services provide guidance and financial support for academy prep students and graduates through and into post-secondary education or service as they become leaders and break the cycle of poverty into which so many were born. Close support and counseling are provided while students are in our middle school program, and they include emphasizing positive life choices, a college-going culture, and the development of life goals while ensuring students master academic and enrichment courses at the highest level. (continued on schedule o)graduate support primarily focuses on current academy prep students in seventh and eighth grade. Prior to graduating from academy prep, students guided by the graduate support staff develop clear educational career goals and are then matched with a high school that best aligns with their academic profile and personal needs. These placements include local private preparatory private schools, public magnet and international baccalaureate (ib) programs, and boarding schools. The graduate support staff ensures that each student applies to, is accepted into, and receives adequate funding for high school. Additionally, the graduate support…
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,656,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7.9M to $1.9M (−76%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 22% · 2023 3% · 2024 10% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Nick Barnett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $17k → $77k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.0M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Givewell Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 37% · 2022 57% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $392k on record.
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $392k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $44
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Academy Prep Foundation Inc · exempt
- Academy Prep Center of St Pete · exempt
- Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC?
- ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC (Florida) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,007 to it, the largest being RAYS BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC ($117,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $309,007 in grants to ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC?
- RAYS BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $117,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing