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CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC

CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,211 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($113,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$198k
Net assets
$880k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Clearwater Academy Inc does

Mission

Discovering strengths. Creating hope.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Clearwater academy is a private school whose aim is to provide a learning environment for those with learning differences.

    $743,001 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $743,001.

02The 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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($254k)2019 Revenue 82 ($1.0M) Expenses 95 ($1.0M) Net assets 117 ($297k)2020 Revenue 69 ($868k) Expenses 82 ($863k) Net assets 119 ($302k)2021 Revenue 70 ($892k) Expenses 81 ($853k) Net assets 134 ($342k)2022 Revenue 82 ($1.0M) Expenses 89 ($934k) Net assets 175 ($445k)2023 Revenue 94 ($1.2M) Expenses 97 ($1.0M) Net assets 241 ($613k)2024 Revenue 91 ($1.2M) Expenses 97 ($1.0M) Net assets 296 ($752k)2025 Revenue 96 ($1.2M) Expenses 104 ($1.1M) Net assets 346 ($880k)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (104)Net assets (346)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 2020 to 2021, from $449k to $1.4M (+214%).

$254k
$312k
$449k
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.8M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

14% of CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$215k
’18
$43k
’19
$5k
’20
$40k
’21
$103k
’22
$168k
’23
$139k
’24
$128k
’25
9.6
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

Brett Temples

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed7111166677
Joined·+4+0+3+1+0+1+2
No longer listed·0081002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $59k → $44k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 CLEARWATER 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

CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

81% 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 CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC.

57%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 44% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 38% · 2022 98% · 2023 45% — 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

33% of CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

63% of CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $74k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Georgia funders.

GA

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

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’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve9.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like CLEARWATER 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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 23%Fundraising 8%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC?
CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,211 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($113,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $198,211 in grants to CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $113,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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