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ATHENA ACADEMY INC

ATHENA ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $518,302 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($180,349). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.7M
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$518k
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
9/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

ATHENA ACADEMY INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets -293 ($-237017)2018 Revenue 109 ($2.6M) Expenses 106 ($2.4M) Net assets -45 ($-36031)2019 Revenue 107 ($2.6M) Expenses 107 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($81k)2020 Revenue 95 ($2.3M) Expenses 86 ($2.0M) Net assets 477 ($385k)2021 Revenue 116 ($2.8M) Expenses 97 ($2.2M) Net assets 1187 ($959k)2022 Revenue 115 ($2.8M) Expenses 109 ($2.5M) Net assets 1506 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 119 ($2.9M) Expenses 114 ($2.6M) Net assets 1831 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 148 ($3.6M) Expenses 116 ($2.7M) Net assets 2993 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 112 ($2.7M) Expenses 120 ($2.8M) Net assets 2882 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (120)Net assets (2882)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of ATHENA ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$113k
17
$198k
18
$117k
19
$304k
20
$574k
21
$258k
22
$252k
23
$926k
24
$71k
25
7.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $113k.

8 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)100% 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 ATHENA ACADEMY 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

ATHENA ACADEMY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

100% 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 ATHENA ACADEMY INC.

35%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 69% · 2020 63% · 2021 47% · 2022 55% · 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

57% of ATHENA ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 90% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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 ATHENA ACADEMY INC'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

CA
DE

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

19
21
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $517k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 ATHENA ACADEMY INC

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ATHENA ACADEMY INC: 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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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 ATHENA ACADEMY INC?
ATHENA ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $518,302 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($180,349). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ATHENA ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $518,302 in grants to ATHENA ACADEMY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ATHENA ACADEMY INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $180,349 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATHENA ACADEMY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 10funders 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