Florida · Nonprofit
BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC
BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,450 to it, the largest being FANATICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Believers Academy Inc does
Mission
Believers academy is dedicated to ese students aged fourteen to twenty-one who are at risk of dropping out of their schools due to persistent lack of success in that environment. The main goal of believers academy is to reduce reading and math deficits while building vocational skills. Each student will obtain and maintain employment. Through these accomplishments, each student will increase their self-esteem and become a productive citizen.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school provides an environment which teaches students the skills to be successful on the job, while building their confidence and independence through hands on employment and internships. The school served an average of 100 students during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025.
$1,521,578 spent$1,408,810 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,521,578.
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 2020 to 2021, from $963k to $1.3M (+38%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 8% · 2020 13% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 27% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Lori Dyer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $6k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 BELIEVERS 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
BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139 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
BELIEVERS 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
Government funding BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $98 on record.
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $98
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BELIEVERS 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELIEVERS 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 BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC?
- BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,450 to it, the largest being FANATICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,450 in grants to BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC?
- FANATICS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELIEVERS ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 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