Texas · Nonprofit
CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY
CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,867,284 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($868,700). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Cornerstone Crossroads Academy does
Mission
Cornerstone Crossroads Academy (cca) was incorporated in 2006 and operates in south dallas. Cca exists to expose at-risk high school students to the hope and abundant life found in christ and to equip students to know god and serve him forever. The mission of cca is to develop urban youth through transformative education and equip future leaders to impact their communities for christ. Cca accomplishes this through academics, life coaching, community service and special programs. Cca is an accredited, faith-based private high school for young people who are overcoming major barriers to earn an accredited high school diploma.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
High school diploma program - the academy is an accredited, faith-based private high school for young people who are overcoming major barriers to earn an accredited high school diploma. In addition to high school education services, we offer life skills and leadership training, workforce education and mentoring programs for the academy's students. For over 17 years, the academy's goal has been to help students who have given up hope, dropped out of school, and live on the verge of homelessness develop academically, socially, physically, and spiritually so that they are prepared to begin their postsecondary education and/or enter the workforce. Each student who attends the academy is low-income or extremely low-income, as defined by hud. Therefore, while the academy is a private school, the academy does not charge program fees or tuition. Instead, each student must complete community service hours in exchange for tuition. This requirement allows the academy's students to have ownership in their education, provides services to our community, and gives students opportunities to build job-related skills for their resumes. The educational model is a blended learning approach of…
$397,906 spentof which $4,928 as grants57% of program spendingMentoring and social services - students' formal and informal mentoring with staff and volunteers plays a key role in helping students achieve success. Each student is assigned an advisor teacher, who meets with the student 1:1 each week. Advisors work with the students to identify and address challenging life issues and habits in their personal lives that present barriers to success. A graduation coach helps students define their strengths and identify opportunities for development both in life skills and workforce readiness. A case manager helps connect each student with needed resources in the community, including clothing, transportation, housing, food programs, obtaining copies of their birth certificates, social security cards, and state identification cards, as well as medical, dental and vision care.
$114,597 spentof which $33,414 as grants16% of program spendingEngagement - the academy provides volunteer screening and support for community members who wish to get involved in the south dallas area in meaningful, relationship-building ways. Each year over 400 volunteers engage in community services including landscaping and neighborhood cleanup, providing meals to students, delivering food to families in need, tutoring, providing transportation to medical appointments and hosting community events to connect with neighbors in the academy's area.
$66,690 spentof which $17,260 as grants10% of program spendingCca work academy - the academy provides key life workforce skills for students so that they may successfully transition from school to work. Targeted classes provide students with opportunities to find their purpose, understand their options for higher education, and prepare for the workforce. Students who wish to participate in the work training program commit to working extra hours before and after classes and on weekends. These students also complete leadership classes focused on learning essential life skills for a successful work place transition. Students are connected with work internship opportunities in the community.
$115,502 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $694,695.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $3.2M (+111%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Kristi Lichtenberg
Exec dir/dir
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $165k → $905k.
9 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
69% 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 CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 34% · 2019 19% · 2020 18% · 2021 45% · 2022 40% · 2023 31% — growing more concentrated.
“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
57% of CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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. 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
97% of CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY?
- CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,867,284 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($868,700). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $4,867,284 in grants to CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $868,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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