Ohio · Nonprofit
Citizens Academy East
Citizens Academy East (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,141,684 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ($1,532,648). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundationlocal
- Ohio Council of Community Schoolsportfolio match
- Shoes and Clothes for Kidslocal
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.
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 83% · 2019 88% · 2020 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $741k → $0.
From the IRS filings of Citizens Academy East’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Citizens Academy East leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of Citizens Academy East's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Higley Fund of the Cleveland FoundationlocalOH · funds 126 organizations near you
- Ohio Council of Community Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shoes and Clothes for KidslocalOH · funds 140 organizations near you
- State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 50can Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whirlpool Collective Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Institute for Excellence in Teachingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate 215portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools for Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bluum Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Citizens Academy East
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Citizens Academy Southeast · exempt
- Citizens Academy · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Citizens Academy East: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Citizens Academy East?
- Citizens Academy East (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,141,684 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ($1,532,648). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Citizens Academy East have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,141,684 in grants to Citizens Academy East, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens Academy East?
- FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $1,532,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens Academy East 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing