Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC
FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,692,251 to it, the largest being BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($870,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Falmouth Academy Inc does
Mission
Harnessing the power of inspired learning in a world-renowned scientific and vibrant artistic community, falmouth academy emboldens each student to take creative and intellectual risks to confidently engage the challenges of our times.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The academy's primary mission is the education of students enrolled in grades 7 through 12. During the current year the academy had enrolled 190 students.
$6,073,214 spentof which $1,563,658 as grants$6,669,060 earned by the program96% of program spendingFalmouth academy offers a summer program for students of all ages and skill levels involving activities in the arts, science and robotics, athletics, languages and outdoor activities. The courses usually last a week and run for six weeks from late june 2023 - august 2023.
$224,668 spent$385,437 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,297,882.
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 $22M to $24M (+9%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of FALMOUTH ACADEMY 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. 1 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 broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $77k → $658k.
11 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
57% 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 FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 44% · 2019 47% · 2020 24% · 2021 38% · 2022 37% · 2023 46% — 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
65% of FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
55% of FALMOUTH ACADEMY 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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $700 on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$700
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FALMOUTH 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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 FALMOUTH ACADEMY 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 FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC?
- FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,692,251 to it, the largest being BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($870,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,692,251 in grants to FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC?
- BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $870,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 32 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