Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY
CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,417 to it, the largest being Friends of Cincinnati Classical Academy ($167,389). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $521k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Cincinnati Classical Academy does
Mission
To develop the minds and nourish the hearts of our students through a content-rich curriculum in the classical liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in moral character and civic virtue
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided educational services to students
$4,865,873 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,865,873.
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.
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: 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CINCINNATI CLASSICAL 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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $56k → $80k.
9 of 16 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 CINCINNATI CLASSICAL 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
CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 45% · 2022 41% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“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
71% of CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CINCINNATI CLASSICAL 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CINCINNATI CLASSICAL 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 CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY?
- CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,417 to it, the largest being Friends of Cincinnati Classical Academy ($167,389). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $521,417 in grants to CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY?
- Friends of Cincinnati Classical Academy is the largest funder on record, with $167,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing