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FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY

FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,422 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($147,775). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.0M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$210k
Net assets
$569k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Fellowship Academy does

Mission

The mission of Fellowship Academy is to provide every child an opportunity for a safe, affordable, well-rounded Christ-centered educational experience and build Christian leaders to serve the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Academic Program - In addition to on-level curriculum, FA offers honors or AP courses in English, Algebra 1 and 2, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy and physiology, Pathophysiology, Physics, World Geography, World History and Art. All students in grades 9-11 participate in the PSAT onsite. All 8th and 9th graders participate in the PreACT. FA partners with Letourneau University and Tarrant County College offer dual credit courses on campus for juniors and seniors in English Composition I ; II, British Literature I ; II, US History, Economics, Government, and Environmental Science (6 students were enrolled in Dual Credit). Fine Arts courses include visual arts, theater arts, band, and choral music. We offer instruction in languages other than English including Spanish. State of Texas endorsements include Multidisciplinary Studies, Arts and Humanities, STEM, Public Service - Health Science, and Fine Arts. Fellowship Academy enrolled 354 students during the fiscal period with 18 graduates.

    $3,217,603 spentof which $349,447 as grants$3,641,894 earned by the program
    85% of program spending
  2. Athletics & Fine Arts - 123 Fellowship Academy students participated in the following athletic programs: baseball, basketball, cheerleading, football, golf, physical education, softball, track/cross country, and volleyball. Students may also participate in a Fine Arts program, including art and drumline, choir, praise band, and theater.

    $498,080 spent$65,272 earned by the program
    13% of program spending
  3. Student Activities - Students in all grade levels participate in field trips, travel, fine arts productions and competitions, and interscholastic academic competitions. Other activities include community service, National Honor Society, Student Council, Yearbook, Youth & Government, Rotary Club 4-Way Test speech meet, and 4H. These programs are all designed to fulfill our mission, which is to prepare students to realize their full potential as they discover their God-given talents, gifts, and purpose and to graduate godly leaders who will impact their community by serving others.

    $68,099 spent$73,982 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  4. Before and After School Programs

    $23,430 spent$68,718 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,807,212.

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 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.9M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 95 ($3.6M) Expenses 94 ($3.6M) Net assets 99 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 90 ($3.4M) Expenses 87 ($3.4M) Net assets 104 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 86 ($3.3M) Expenses 85 ($3.3M) Net assets 103 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 98 ($3.7M) Expenses 95 ($3.7M) Net assets 108 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 88 ($3.4M) Expenses 87 ($3.4M) Net assets 108 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 128 ($4.9M) Expenses 110 ($4.2M) Net assets 164 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 117 ($4.5M) Expenses 129 ($5.0M) Net assets 120 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 105 ($4.0M) Expenses 122 ($4.7M) Net assets 52 ($569k)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (122)Net assets (52)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 2018 to 2019, from $5.6M to $7.1M (+27%).

$5.3M
$5.6M
$7.1M
$6.9M
$7.0M
$7.1M
$8.0M
$7.0M
$6.0M
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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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 26% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$60k
’17
−$11k
’18
$53k
’19
−$17k
’20
$58k
’21
−$17k
’22
$614k
’23
−$503k
’24
−$753k
’25
0.4
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.

Chief executive

Lee Stringham

President & CEO

Board chair

Debbie Robinson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed767845446
Joined·+0+4+1+1+1+2+0+3
No longer listed·13050301
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $29k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 FELLOWSHIP 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

FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY.

70%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 60% · 2020 98% · 2021 77% · 2022 80% · 2023 70% — 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.

Where its funders are

74% of FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Texas funders.

RI
KY
TX

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

’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $210k to it.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FELLOWSHIP 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY?
FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,422 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($147,775). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $210,422 in grants to FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY?
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $147,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FELLOWSHIP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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