Florida · Nonprofit
CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC
CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,661 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($306,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $334k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Creative Learning Academy of Pensacola Inc does
Mission
Mission: preparing students to learn, lead, and become the creative problem solvers of the future. Vision: creative learning academy is a culturally enriched learning community that inspires creativity, independence, and integrity. Through innovative student experiences and an academically challenging curriculum, cla creates lifelong learners who share a vision of excellence and engage as active, compassionate citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Program service revenues include tuition and registration fees which are essential to the operation of the school which in turn provides education and extracurricular activities for students from preschool age through the eighth grade. Activities and fees provide expanded opportunities for learning as well as broaden the students' educational experience.
$3,779,338 spent$4,898,267 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,779,338.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.7M to $13M (+135%).
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.
23% of CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $560.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA 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
CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
94% of CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA 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 $19k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k 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.
Against its field
CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC: 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 CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC?
- CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,661 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($306,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $333,661 in grants to CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $306,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY OF PENSACOLA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 5 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