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CARDINAL ACADEMY INC

CARDINAL ACADEMY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,124,656 to it, the largest being ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ($27,124,656). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$46M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$27M
Grants received
$51M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 100%

Against its field

CARDINAL ACADEMY INC's revenue grew 716% between 2024 and 2025.

Operating margin99% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)716% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($319k) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2025 Revenue 816 ($46M) Expenses 154 ($493k) Net assets 956 ($51M)
20242025
Revenue (816)Expenses (154)Net assets (956)Peer revenue range

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CARDINAL ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.3M
24
$45M
25
0.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of CARDINAL ACADEMY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of CARDINAL ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CARDINAL ACADEMY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

2% of spending goes to programs.

Program 2%Management 98%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • St Augustine Preparatory Academy · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARDINAL 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CARDINAL ACADEMY INC?
CARDINAL ACADEMY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,124,656 to it, the largest being ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ($27,124,656). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARDINAL ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27,124,656 in grants to CARDINAL ACADEMY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARDINAL ACADEMY INC?
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,124,656 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARDINAL ACADEMY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing