North Carolina · Nonprofit
Achievement Academy of Durham
Achievement Academy of Durham (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,212 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($57,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Fox Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Evelyn D Schmidt Charitable Trustlocalportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $44k → $12.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Achievement Academy of Durham’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
Achievement Academy of Durham leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 Achievement Academy of Durham.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 61% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of Achievement Academy of Durham's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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 FY2020, 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
52% of Achievement Academy of Durham's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $52k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchNC · funds 37 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fox Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNC · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Evelyn D Schmidt Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchNC · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bin Charitable Foundation % Sarah Fishlocalportfolio matchNC · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Duke University Health System Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
- Morgan Creek Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Belk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National College Attainment Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fordham Street Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jobs for America's Graduates Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Achievement Academy of Durham
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Achievement Academy of Durham: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Achievement Academy of Durham?
- Achievement Academy of Durham (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,212 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($57,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Achievement Academy of Durham have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $109,212 in grants to Achievement Academy of Durham, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Achievement Academy of Durham?
- TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Achievement Academy of Durham find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing