North Carolina · Nonprofit
Cathedral Oak Academy
Cathedral Oak Academy (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,315 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $219k
What Cathedral Oak Academy does
Mission
K-12 Classical Christian Education Cathedral Oak Academy partners with parents to spiritually and academically equip lifelong learners who are courageous leaders, capable of compassionately influenciing the culture for the glory of God.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school provided a Christ-centered, classical education to 198 students in grades TK-12 and delivered a comprehensive academic program including core subjects such as mathematics, science, literature, history, and Latin, along with enrichment opportunities in fine arts, physical educaiton, sports, and leadership programs. Chorus and theater were added in the current year, and the school offered its first concert and musical theater production. Students participated in extracurricular and co-curricular activities designed to cultivate creativity, leadership, and community engagement. The school continues to support student growth academically, socially, and spiritually in partnership with parents. To increase access, the school accepts the Opportunity Scholarship, which provides income-based financial assistance to families seeking to attend private school. In response, to strong enrollment growth and community demand, the school began planning to open a second campus, scheduled to open in Fall 2026. See further description at Schedule O.
$741,804 spent$953,553 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $741,804.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $66k to $343k (+420%).
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.
8% of Cathedral Oak Academy’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Misty Russ
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Cathedral Oak 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
Cathedral Oak Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Cathedral Oak Academy.
“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
100% of Cathedral Oak Academy'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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
Cathedral Oak Academy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Cathedral Oak 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cathedral Oak 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 Cathedral Oak Academy?
- Cathedral Oak Academy (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,315 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Cathedral Oak Academy have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,315 in grants to Cathedral Oak Academy, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cathedral Oak Academy?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cathedral Oak Academy 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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