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AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,696 to it, the largest being NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$19k
Net assets
$201k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Ambassador Christian Academy does

Mission

To equip each student in the school to become a life-long learner and ambassador for christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The school specializes in differentiated or individualized instruction. Each child is encouraged to learn at a pace that works for him or her within expected standards and goals set by the teacher. The teacher takes a very direct, hands-on role in facilitating each child's learning and mastery of knowledge. Every day our students have clear, measurable learning goals. This individualized approach to teaching has several, unique advantages over the traditional lecture driven classroom, including: high individual accountability which develops a mature personal responsibility, constant instructor/student interaction, so feedback is provided to the student immediately, reading and research skills are constantly and consistently utilized and high emphasis on collection, organization and analysis of data with note taking, notebooks and planners used daily.

    $1,689,860 spentof which $15,000 as grants$1,679,849 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,689,860.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($475k) Expenses 100 ($457k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2018 Revenue 125 ($596k) Expenses 128 ($585k) Net assets 147 ($34k)2019 Revenue 187 ($888k) Expenses 185 ($843k) Net assets 340 ($78k)2020 Revenue 197 ($936k) Expenses 194 ($885k) Net assets 561 ($129k)2021 Revenue 211 ($1.0M) Expenses 217 ($990k) Net assets 617 ($142k)2022 Revenue 241 ($1.1M) Expenses 237 ($1.1M) Net assets 880 ($203k)2023 Revenue 304 ($1.4M) Expenses 319 ($1.5M) Net assets 836 ($193k)2024 Revenue 355 ($1.7M) Expenses 376 ($1.7M) Net assets 703 ($162k)2025 Revenue 378 ($1.8M) Expenses 384 ($1.8M) Net assets 871 ($201k)
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Revenue (378)Expenses (384)Net assets (871)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $228k to $312k (+37%).

$53k
$81k
$134k
$194k
$228k
$312k
$312k
$288k
$304k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$11k
’18
$44k
’19
$51k
’20
$13k
’21
$61k
’22
−$10k
’23
−$31k
’24
$39k
’25
1.6
months of
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.

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Listed677777677
Joined·+4+1+1+1+4+0+2+0
No longer listed·31114110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $6k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
2
1
2

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’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

AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.

53%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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.

Where its funders are

AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states in all.

NY
MD
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’21
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,696 to it, the largest being NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $18,696 in grants to AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing