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CAPE COD ACADEMY

CAPE COD ACADEMY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,305,303 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($324,814). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.1M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$1.5M
12/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Cape Cod Academy does

Mission

Cape Cod Academy cultivates academic excellence and fosters a passion for life-long learning. Our nurturing k-12 community is deeply rooted in our core values of scholarship, integrity, compassion, and respect. Empowered by meaningful relationships, students develop the intellectual and social skills to become confident, independent, and successful citizens.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The academy nurtures students' individual talents and curiosities and offers multiple opportunities for self-directed study, service, and leadership. The academy offers a full kindergarten through 12 education with a focus on early childhood development, art and music, ap classes, service & entrepreneurship and more. The integrated curriculum throughout Cape Cod Academy's lower, middle and upper schools allows our students to stretch their potential.

    $8,783,160 spentof which $2,490,493 as grants$7,731,449 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,783,160.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.8M) Expenses 100 ($9.9M) Net assets 100 ($8.7M)2018 Revenue 105 ($7.1M) Expenses 109 ($11M) Net assets 58 ($5.1M)2019 Revenue 122 ($8.2M) Expenses 100 ($9.9M) Net assets 39 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 110 ($7.4M) Expenses 98 ($9.7M) Net assets 13 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 157 ($11M) Expenses 106 ($10M) Net assets 15 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 171 ($12M) Expenses 112 ($11M) Net assets 20 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 180 ($12M) Expenses 116 ($11M) Net assets 28 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 167 ($11M) Expenses 114 ($11M) Net assets 29 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 135 ($9.1M) Expenses 103 ($10M) Net assets 17 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (103)Net assets (17)

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 $12M to $11M (−11%).

$15M
$14M
$13M
$13M
$13M
$13M
$12M
$12M
$11M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3.1M
’17
−$3.6M
’18
−$1.7M
’19
−$2.3M
’20
$117k
’21
$506k
’22
$682k
’23
$57k
’24
−$1.0M
’25
0.6
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.

Board chair

Michael D Pierce

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151415131314161615
Joined·+3+3+0+3+2+2+3+6
No longer listed·42231037
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $31k → $227k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CAPE COD 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

CAPE COD ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

39% 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 CAPE COD ACADEMY.

25%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 62% · 2019 34% · 2020 40% · 2021 23% · 2022 36% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of CAPE COD ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

CAPE COD ACADEMY draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 9 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
DE
FL

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $505k 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

Government funding CAPE COD ACADEMY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $157k on record.

State$157k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$157k
  • (TT) LOANS AND SPECIAL PAYMENTS$200

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 CAPE COD 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAPE COD ACADEMY?
CAPE COD ACADEMY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,305,303 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($324,814). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAPE COD ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,305,303 in grants to CAPE COD ACADEMY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAPE COD ACADEMY?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $324,814 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAPE COD ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 19 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