Texas · Nonprofit
FIREFLY ACADEMY INC
FIREFLY ACADEMY INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,749,429 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($2,749,429). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $746
What Firefly Academy Inc does
Program
The texas rocket engineering lab (trel) was established through a $1,000,000 commitment by firefly academy to ut. This commitment was made in order to help the students build the first student-built rocket to pass 100 km. The base11 space challenge was announced soon after the commitment was made. The base11 space challenge will award $1,000,000 to the first student team to launch a rocket to 100 km. In addition to the financial commitment, firefly academy has also organized lectures, mentorship, and testing for trel through its partnership with firefly aerospace. Firefly aerospace employees lecture to trel students regarding how to build a rocket. In addition, firefly academy is currently helping trel sublease a portion of firefly aerospace's test site. This lease will allow trel students to safely test their hardware with firefly aerospace guidance.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $16 to $746 (+4563%).
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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250k → $1.3M.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FIREFLY ACADEMY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FIREFLY 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like FIREFLY 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIREFLY ACADEMY INC?
- FIREFLY ACADEMY INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,749,429 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($2,749,429). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIREFLY ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,749,429 in grants to FIREFLY ACADEMY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIREFLY ACADEMY INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $2,749,429 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIREFLY ACADEMY INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 1 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