Illinois · Nonprofit
Cambridge Classical Academy
Cambridge Classical Academy (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,556 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($236,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $448k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $483k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Cambridge Classical Academy does
Mission
We consider ourselves a miracle institution full of inspiration and absolute faith in Gods hands. We do so daily in teaching our students, interacting with our diverse parent body and our location in Chicago which makes us ever more special.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Cambridge Classical Academy is a Christ-centered independent school that seeks to provide students with a rigorous, classical education that will prepare them for the world that awaits them, teaching them how to think, and encouraging them to know and understands the heart of God. Cambridge Classical Academy is an independent, private Christian school that serves grades pre-K (age 3) to 8th grade based in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Our school maintains an intentionally small student-to-teacher ratio to underpin our commitment to individualized instruction. Family engagement the cornerstone of the schools success. Our teachers partner with our families to develop an instructional blueprint for each students academic and developmental roadmaps.
$606,202 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $606,202.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $171k to $13k (−93%).
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.
100% of Cambridge Classical Academy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $81k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Cambridge Classical Academy’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
Cambridge Classical Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Cambridge Classical Academy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 98% · 2022 69% · 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
Cambridge Classical Academy draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $237k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Cambridge Classical Academy's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Cambridge Classical Academy
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cambridge Classical Academy: 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 Cambridge Classical Academy?
- Cambridge Classical Academy (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,556 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($236,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cambridge Classical Academy have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $482,556 in grants to Cambridge Classical Academy, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cambridge Classical Academy?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $236,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cambridge Classical Academy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 5 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