Minnesota · Nonprofit
Community of Peace Academy
Community of Peace Academy (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,431 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($6,431). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Community of Peace Academy does
Mission
The mission of Community of Peace Academy is to be a racially and culturally diverse community of students, parents, and staff, dedicated to creating a peaceful environment in which each person is treated with unconditional positive regard and acceptance. To create such an environment, a non-violent perspective will be intentionally taught and all members of the community will strive to practice a non-violent lifestyle. Within such an environment, each student will be empowered and inspired to reach his or her full academic, emotional, physical, and spiritual potential. Thus empowered and prepared, Community of Peace graduates will commit themselves to meet the challenges posed by life in the multicultural world of the 21st century with confidence, compassion, intelligence, and a positive regard for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
At Community of Peace Academy, our desired outcome is to educate the whole person - mind, body, and will - for peace, justice, freedom, compassion, wholeness, and fullness of life for all. To acheive this desired outcome, each person is treated with unconditional positive regard, and caring relationships are fostered. Ethics and conflict prevention skills are taught and modeled daily. We respect and empower parents as the first educators of their children. Teachers visit homes of their students each year with the purose of setting goals with parents and establishing trusting relationships with families.
$13,578,210 spent$57,045 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,578,210.
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. 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. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $6.4M to $16M (+156%).
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 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Community of Peace Academy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Timothy McGowan
Executive Director
Board chair
Sarah Zosel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $1k → $153.
2 of 6 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 Community of Peace 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
Community of Peace Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 Community of Peace Academy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
Community of Peace Academy draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Community of Peace Academy holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Community of Peace 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community of Peace Building Company · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community of Peace 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 Community of Peace Academy?
- Community of Peace Academy (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,431 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($6,431). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community of Peace Academy have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $15,431 in grants to Community of Peace Academy, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community of Peace Academy?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,431 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community of Peace Academy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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