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DENVER ACADEMY INC

DENVER ACADEMY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,270,522 to it, the largest being THE GALENA FOUNDATION ($8,089,614). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$19M
Funders on record
56
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$57M
36/56 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Denver Academy Inc does

Mission

Education of students with learning differences

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Diagnosis and treatment of students with learning differences or difficulties and associated handicaps.

    $14,485,054 spentof which $1,752,819 as grants$17,044,209 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,485,054.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($18M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($29M)2018 Revenue 115 ($21M) Expenses 105 ($12M) Net assets 132 ($38M)2019 Revenue 76 ($14M) Expenses 108 ($12M) Net assets 138 ($40M)2020 Revenue 77 ($14M) Expenses 110 ($13M) Net assets 143 ($42M)2021 Revenue 101 ($19M) Expenses 115 ($13M) Net assets 166 ($48M)2022 Revenue 91 ($17M) Expenses 123 ($14M) Net assets 170 ($49M)2023 Revenue 99 ($18M) Expenses 134 ($15M) Net assets 180 ($52M)2024 Revenue 105 ($19M) Expenses 143 ($16M) Net assets 190 ($55M)2025 Revenue 105 ($19M) Expenses 154 ($18M) Net assets 196 ($57M)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (154)Net assets (196)Peer revenue range

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 $37M to $47M (+27%).

$37M
$47M
$49M
$50M
$57M
$59M
$63M
$65M
$68M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of DENVER ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$7.0M
’17
$9.1M
’18
$1.6M
’19
$1.6M
’20
$5.5M
’21
$2.7M
’22
$2.9M
’23
$3.0M
’24
$1.6M
’25
10
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.

Board chair

Kent Berke

Chair of the

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed282830272826282325
Joined·+3+4+6+5+5+6+5+3
No longer listed·329474101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell $5.2M → $2.1M.

12 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 DENVER ACADEMY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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

DENVER ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

25% 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 DENVER ACADEMY INC.

57%
largest funder
71%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 37% · 2021 31% · 2022 47% · 2023 49% — 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.

How long its funders stay

49% of DENVER ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

95% of DENVER ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DENVER ACADEMY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve10.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like DENVER ACADEMY 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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Dae Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds DENVER ACADEMY INC?
DENVER ACADEMY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,270,522 to it, the largest being THE GALENA FOUNDATION ($8,089,614). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DENVER ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $14,270,522 in grants to DENVER ACADEMY INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DENVER ACADEMY INC?
THE GALENA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,089,614 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DENVER ACADEMY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 56 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