Indiana · Nonprofit
Christel House Academy Inc
Christel House Academy Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,657,393 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($26,540,696). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $49M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Christel House Academy Inc does
Mission
CHRISTEL HOUSE SCHOOLS is a network of public charter schools in Indianapolis whose objective is to offer a transformational and high quality educational experience for impoverished urban population.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education - christel house academy offers educational programming for elementary and secondary students at two school locations in grades k-12. Students are taught using the indiana academic standards, including college and career readiness skills, in addition to a variety of elective courses. Enhanced curriculum offers supplemental instruction around 21st century technology skills, the international primary curriculum, workplace certifications and dual credit offerings. Character and values education lessons are embedded in the established coursework. Additionally, college and career counseling occurs throughout the academic year and support services are extended to graduates for multiple years beyond high school graduation.
$20,569,735 spent$1,632,435 earned by the program73% of program spendingAdult education - christel house dors (drop out recovery school) offers educational programming for adult high school students at two schools in three separate locations. Students are taught general academic standards including curriculum enhancements and supplemental instruction based on student needs. Dors serves a diverse population and provide students a variety of support services, including college and career support, dual credit options, and workplace certification training. Support services are extended to graduates for multiple years beyond graduation.
$7,258,220 spent26% of program spendingTEACHER TRAINING - CHRISTEL HOUSE INDYTEACH is a paid teacher apprenticeship program, leading to state licensing, that is embedded in Christel House Schools. This is a one-year program where the apprentice teachers primarily work with mentors in the school, while completing on the job training. IndyTeach is a non-higher education, non-credit bearing, state approved alternative licensing program that focuses on preparation for teaching an impoverished, urban student population.
$214,030 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,041,985.
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. 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 $19M to $30M (+60%).
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: 2017 88% · 2018 87% · 2019 86% · 2020 62% · 2021 55% · 2022 78% · 2023 90% · 2024 90% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Christel House Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Masengale Emily
CEO/board president-no voting rights
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $1.7M.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Christel House Academy Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 28 funders by total. 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
Christel House Academy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
44% 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 Christel House Academy Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 93% · 2019 97% · 2020 93% · 2021 58% · 2022 70% · 2023 79% — 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
44% of Christel House Academy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
99% of Christel House Academy Inc's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $716k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Christel House Academy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Christel House Academy Inc
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Christel House 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 Christel House Academy Inc?
- Christel House Academy Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,657,393 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($26,540,696). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Christel House Academy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $48,657,393 in grants to Christel House Academy Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Christel House Academy Inc?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $26,540,696 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Christel House Academy Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 28 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