North Carolina · Nonprofit
BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC
BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,589 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,160). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $-5621123
What Bonnie Cone Classical Academy Inc does
Mission
The operation of a public charter school for the education of children in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of two public charter schools:bonnie cone classical academy, inc. Served approximately 651 students during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, providing education to children in the community.bonnie cone leadership academy, inc. Served approximately 1,267 students during the same fiscal year, also providing education to children in the community.
$21,080,871 spent$2,616,290 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,080,871.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $83M to $152M (+83%).
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: 2020 89% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% · 2024 96% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Martin Mccarthy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $780.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL 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
BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 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
88% of BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149 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
BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bonnie Cone Leadership Academy · disregarded
- Bcca Properties LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL 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 BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC?
- BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,589 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,160). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,589 in grants to BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BONNIE CONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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