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Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc

Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $688,849 to it, the largest being SETH BONDER FOUNDATION ($241,700). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$689k
Net assets
$2.6M
9/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc does

Mission

Provide christian education for at-risk inner-city children

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Operation of accredited christian school for grades k-12 serving at-risk inner-city children in memphis, tn.

    $1,097,496 spent$703,307 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. N/a

  3. N/a

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,097,496.

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 ($513k) Expenses 100 ($597k) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 96 ($493k) Expenses 93 ($553k) Net assets 98 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 124 ($638k) Expenses 118 ($706k) Net assets 93 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 127 ($650k) Expenses 113 ($678k) Net assets 92 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 163 ($835k) Expenses 135 ($805k) Net assets 93 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 167 ($855k) Expenses 146 ($871k) Net assets 92 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 236 ($1.2M) Expenses 157 ($940k) Net assets 103 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 297 ($1.5M) Expenses 246 ($1.5M) Net assets 106 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (297)Expenses (246)Net assets (106)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $2.5M (+10%).

$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.6M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

54% of Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$84k
’17
−$60k
’18
−$68k
’20
−$28k
’21
$30k
’22
−$16k
’23
$270k
’24
$56k
’25
5.2
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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Listed99999779
Joined·+1·+0+0+3+0+2
No longer listed·1·00500
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $27k → $135k.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Brinkley Heights Urban 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

Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc.

35%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 43% · 2019 37% · 2020 49% · 2021 57% · 2022 59% · 2023 37% — 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.

How long its funders stay

67% of Brinkley Heights Urban 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

57% of Brinkley Heights Urban 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 $293k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states.

OH
MO
TN

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

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’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $396k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve5.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 24%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Brinkley Heights Ministries Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc?
Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $688,849 to it, the largest being SETH BONDER FOUNDATION ($241,700). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $688,849 in grants to Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc?
SETH BONDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $241,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 10 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