Idaho · Nonprofit
ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY
ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY (Idaho) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,500 to it, the largest being JOHN H GRACE FOUNDATION ($222,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $314k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Elk Mountain Academy does
Mission
To provide education and mentoring to students. To provide a healthy change for teens and families through academic, therapeudic, experimental and 12 step education. To give the students the tools necessary for them to lead fulfilling and productive lives. To help the students achieve academic success, develop spiritual awareness, overcome emotional obstacles, and conquer addictive behaviors. Most students complete the program within eighteen months.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided education and mentoring to students by providing a healthy change for teens and families through academic, therapeudic, experimental and 12 step education.
$6,116,530 spent$8,472,580 earned by the program97% of program spendingDepreciation. In support for the 1st purpose accomplishment.
$185,525 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,302,055.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.9M to $3.1M (+62%).
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 3% · 2019 8% · 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 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.
Board chair
Jason Thielbahr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $25k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ELK MOUNTAIN 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
ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
29% 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 ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 100% · 2021 53% · 2022 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
ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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
ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY has grown faster 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 ELK MOUNTAIN 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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELK MOUNTAIN 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 ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY?
- ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY (Idaho) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,500 to it, the largest being JOHN H GRACE FOUNDATION ($222,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $313,500 in grants to ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY?
- JOHN H GRACE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $222,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 4 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