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CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE

CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE (Missouri) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,336,850 to it, the largest being THE HARDING FOUNDATION 2108-01-44 ($525,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$-502232
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Classical Academy de Lafayette does

Mission

Lafayette academy develops the academic potential of students through a content rich classical liberal arts program while cultivating wisdom of the mind and virtue of the heart. Lafayette promotes lifelong learning.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization operates a private school for students in kindergarten through twelth grade. The school is dedicated to classical education and promoting superior education results. The classical education approach gives students the foundation for a virtuous life; focusing on the four classical virtues of temperance, justice, prudence, and fortitude.

    $895,077 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $895,077.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($344k) Expenses 100 ($507k)2021 Revenue 179 ($616k) Expenses 171 ($867k)2022 Revenue 400 ($1.4M) Expenses 223 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 330 ($1.1M) Expenses 265 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 603 ($2.1M) Expenses 416 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 525 ($1.8M) Expenses 359 ($1.8M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (525)Expenses (359)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $71k to $514k (+626%).

$72k
$71k
$514k
$674k
$759k
$584k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 15% · 2022 7% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

51% of CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$162k
’20
−$251k
’21
$245k
’22
−$208k
’23
−$32k
’24
−$11k
’25
0.4
months of
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.

Board chair

Dale Henn

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed654956
Joined·+1+2+6+0+2
No longer listed·23141
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $10k → $204k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE’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

CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

45% 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 CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE.

39%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 55% · 2022 53% · 2023 49% — 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

25% of CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.

PA
MO
OK

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $586k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 51%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE?
CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE (Missouri) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,336,850 to it, the largest being THE HARDING FOUNDATION 2108-01-44 ($525,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,336,850 in grants to CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE?
THE HARDING FOUNDATION 2108-01-44 is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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