Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc
Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($80). 1 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $80
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc does
Mission
The mission of Atlas Preparatory Academy is to provide an educational program which engages our students in learning experiences that meet their academic, social, and emotional needs, in a multicultural environment based on mutual respect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Atlas Preparatory Academy, Inc. operated a multi cultural K4 through 12th grade school enrolling an average of 429 full time students with 14 students receiving tuition waiver scholarships and substantially all students qualifying for the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program which provides tuition assistance to low income students and their families.
$4,042,713 spentof which $71,659 as grants$4,877,254 earned by the program82% of program spendingAtlas Preparatory Academy, Inc. operated a subcontracted school student transportation program for all school students living more than two miles from the school with substantially all school students receiving free transportation services.
$602,548 spent$114,148 earned by the program12% of program spendingAtlas Preparatory Academy, Inc. operated a subcontracted school student breakfast and lunch food service program serving an average of 429 school children with all school students receiving free meals.
$308,883 spent$211,426 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,954,144.
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.
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 $4.2M to $5.8M (+37%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Michelle G Lukacs
Pres/Exec Dir
Board chair
Steven E Menden
Chairman/Dir
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12 → $18.
1 of 1 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 Atlas Preparatory 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Atlas Preparatory 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80 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.
Against its field
Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Atlas Preparatory Academy 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Atlas Preparatory 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc?
- Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($80). 1 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 Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $80 in grants to Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Atlas Preparatory Academy Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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