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Tennessee · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA ACADEMY (Tennessee) is funded by 14 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $195,019 in grants to it, the largest being SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND ($36,734). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COLUMBIA ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 655 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 4%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of COLUMBIA ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (26% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
The base broadened — 2 funders to 9 as grant income moved $7k → $72k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 COLUMBIA ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
COLUMBIA ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 58% · 2019 83% · 2020 71% · 2021 70% · 2022 56% · 2023 27% · 2024 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
43% of COLUMBIA ACADEMY'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.
COLUMBIA ACADEMY draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 205 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
91% of spending goes to programs.
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is 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 14funders 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. view filing