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American Academy Foundation

American Academy Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,817 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($10,085). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$13k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
$103k
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What American Academy Foundation does

Mission

American Academy Foundation has been established to support the mission of American Academy. It exists to help finance the costs of the building and strives to meet the needs of teachers so that academic excellence can be achieved.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. American Academy Foundation provides support to American Academy with an enrollment of 2,571 students in fiscal year 2024-2025.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($1k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($53k)2018 Revenue 5092 ($57k) Expenses 1585 ($60k) Net assets 94 ($50k)2019 Revenue 913 ($10k) Expenses 357 ($14k) Net assets 87 ($46k)2020 Revenue 1036 ($12k) Expenses 405 ($15k) Net assets 80 ($43k)2021 Revenue 1485 ($17k) Expenses 54 ($2k) Net assets 108 ($57k)2022 Revenue 466 ($5k) Expenses 0 ($15) Net assets 118 ($62k)2023 Revenue 1700 ($19k) Expenses 61 ($2k) Net assets 149 ($79k)2024 Revenue 1242 ($14k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 175 ($93k)2025 Revenue 1161 ($13k) Expenses 68 ($3k) Net assets 195 ($103k)
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Revenue (1161)Expenses (68)Net assets (195)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 2022 to 2023, from $62k to $79k (+27%).

$53k
$50k
$46k
$43k
$57k
$62k
$79k
$93k
$107k
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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

100% of American Academy Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$3k
’18
−$3k
’19
−$4k
’20
$15k
’21
$5k
’22
$17k
’23
$14k
’24
$10k
’25
494
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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Listed777877777
Joined·+0+0+4+1+2+0+0+2
No longer listed·00322002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.

From the IRS filings of American Academy Foundation’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

American Academy Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

64% 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 American Academy Foundation.

64%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.

“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

68% of American Academy Foundation's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MA
CA
CO

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

’18
’20
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

American Academy Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin80% · top quartile
Months of reserve494.4mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)36% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like American Academy Foundation

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Academy · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Academy Foundation: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds American Academy Foundation?
American Academy Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,817 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($10,085). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does American Academy Foundation have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $15,817 in grants to American Academy Foundation.
Who is the largest funder of American Academy Foundation?
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like American Academy Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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