Texas · Nonprofit
CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY
CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,888 to it, the largest being FirstDay Foundation ($110,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $221k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Cedars International Academy does
Mission
Provide all students with rigorous learning and personalized relationships within a safe community, to ensure their success as responsible, globally conscious citizens.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Approximately 85% of our students are hispanic and economically disadvantaged, and we take pride in serving as a critical support system for families who have been historically underserved by local school districts. Within our attendance areas, cedars international consistently demonstrates strong performance, exceeding that of most traditional and charter schools, with the exception of nyos. Based on the fy24-25 unlitigated ratings, cedars earned an a district designation. Our current rating of 74 reflects the impact of an unanticipated adjustment in ccmr scoresfrom 60% to 88% as well as the challenges associated with the first year of implementing the tea-recommended curriculum. Despite these factors, cedars has demonstrated significant progress in ccmr outcomes, with scores increasing from 69% to 91% over the past two years. The fy24-25 ratings are expected to reflect this continued growth. In response to the transition to the new curriculum and identified performance gaps, we have strengthened our improvement plan by embedding targeted training and professional development into our weekly schedule. These efforts are designed to support instructional alignment and improve…
$6,406,850 spent$35,724 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,406,850.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $3.8M to $4.8M (+27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 99% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $33k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CEDARS INTERNATIONAL 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
CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — diversifying over time.
“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
90% of CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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
CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CEDARS INTERNATIONAL 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CEDARS INTERNATIONAL 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 CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY?
- CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,888 to it, the largest being FirstDay Foundation ($110,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $220,888 in grants to CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY?
- FirstDay Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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