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COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY

COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,281 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($49,281). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$832k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$85k
Net assets
$0
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Comptia Tech Career Academy does

Mission

Comptia Tech Career Academy's mission is to unlock people's potential by helping them launch and grow their careers in information technology. As a non-profit, we train and prepare adults for certification and success in it jobs to address an (see sch o) industry shortage of skilled it professionals, a shortage noted by the national science foundation. Our sole motivation is to help students land and thrive in it jobs in order to grow the tech workforce. Comptia Tech Career Academy is a nonprofit subsidiary of creating it futures foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Creating it futures, in turn, is a subsidiary of the nonprofit, international tech trade association, comptia, headquartered in downers grove, illinois.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. At Comptia Tech Career Academy, our goal is to help you land, and succeed in, an it job. We train students with little-to-no information technology experience and give you the technical and soft skills to launch your career.

    $4,772,719 spent$3,013,623 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,772,719.

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($750k) Expenses 100 ($406k) Net assets 100 ($344k)2020 Revenue 554 ($4.2M) Expenses 1072 ($4.3M) Net assets 76 ($262k)2021 Revenue 723 ($5.4M) Expenses 1723 ($7.0M) Net assets -274 ($-943599)2022 Revenue 1584 ($12M) Expenses 2820 ($11M) Net assets -32 ($-111687)2023 Revenue 1247 ($9.4M) Expenses 1816 ($7.4M) Net assets 55 ($190k)2024 Revenue 111 ($832k) Expenses 257 ($1.0M) Net assets 0 ($0)
201820202021202220232024
Revenue (111)Expenses (257)Net assets (0)

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 $2.7M to $7.4M (+172%).

$404k
$1.5M
$2.7M
$7.4M
$3.6M
$0
201820202021202220232024
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$344k
’18
−$194k
’20
−$1.6M
’21
$448k
’22
$2.0M
’23
−$209k
’24
5.1
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.

Chief executive

Courtney Fong

CEO, director

Board chair

Todd Thibodeaux

Chairman, director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

201820202021202220232024
Listed410101094
Joined··+1+4+5+0
No longer listed··1465
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
Skillup Coalitionunclassified
$36k
funders
2

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $750k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Global Technology Industry Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY raised.

From the IRS filings of COMPTIA TECH CAREER 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

COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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

100% 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 COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

58% of COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY'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 $36k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like COMPTIA TECH CAREER 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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 8 states

MN
IL
OR
NJ
CA
MD
NC
DC

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Computing Technology Industry Assoc · exempt
  • Creating It Futures Foundation · exempt
  • Comptia Investments Nfp Inc · exempt
  • Aitp · exempt
  • International Internet Testing Association · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPTIA TECH CAREER 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 COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY?
COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,281 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($49,281). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $85,281 in grants to COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY.
Who is the largest funder of COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,281 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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