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CHELSEA ACADEMY INC

CHELSEA ACADEMY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,198 to it, the largest being NEAL C NICHOLS FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.6M
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
$173k
Grants received
$291k
Net assets
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

CHELSEA ACADEMY INC has grown faster than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets -31 ($-53158)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.9M) Expenses 79 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($171k)2020 Revenue 76 ($1.5M) Expenses 76 ($1.6M) Net assets 55 ($93k)2021 Revenue 95 ($1.9M) Expenses 72 ($1.5M) Net assets 292 ($497k)2022 Revenue 139 ($2.8M) Expenses 107 ($2.2M) Net assets 461 ($787k)2023 Revenue 148 ($3.0M) Expenses 164 ($3.4M) Net assets 200 ($342k)2024 Revenue 179 ($3.6M) Expenses 174 ($3.6M) Net assets 171 ($291k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (179)Expenses (174)Net assets (171)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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

14% of CHELSEA ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
18
$224k
19
$77k
20
$404k
21
$553k
22
$445k
23
$50k
24
1.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $75k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)46% 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 CHELSEA ACADEMY INC’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

CHELSEA ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

58% 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 CHELSEA ACADEMY INC.

29%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 47% · 2023 38%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.

How long its funders stay

71% of CHELSEA ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

78% of CHELSEA ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA
OK

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

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18
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23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CHELSEA 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 Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Chelsea Academy Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHELSEA 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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Questions and answers

Who funds CHELSEA ACADEMY INC?
CHELSEA ACADEMY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,198 to it, the largest being NEAL C NICHOLS FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHELSEA ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $173,198 in grants to CHELSEA ACADEMY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHELSEA ACADEMY INC?
NEAL C NICHOLS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHELSEA ACADEMY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing