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FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY

FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$497k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$84k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Firm Foundations Academy does

Mission

The mission of Firm Foundations Academy is to equip students, encourage families, and cultivate hope by meeting the educational, emotional, and social needs of our students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In the 2023-2024 academic year we provided students with a quality education while fulfilling their unique social and emotional needs. We advocate high academic standards, individualized learning goals, and attention to the whole student. We utilize peronalized, research-based instruction to help them unlock their full potential and grow into confident critical thinkers.

    $427,120 spent$438,931 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $427,120.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($113k) Expenses 100 ($107k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2021 Revenue 169 ($191k) Expenses 168 ($179k) Net assets 289 ($18k)2022 Revenue 234 ($265k) Expenses 272 ($290k) Net assets -127 ($-7855)2023 Revenue 331 ($374k) Expenses 322 ($344k) Net assets 353 ($22k)2024 Revenue 416 ($470k) Expenses 408 ($436k) Net assets 836 ($51k)2025 Revenue 440 ($497k) Expenses 435 ($465k) Net assets 1359 ($84k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (440)Expenses (435)Net assets (1359)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 2022 to 2023, from $21k to $216k (+925%).

$8k
$26k
$21k
$216k
$229k
$278k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

11% of FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’20
$12k
’21
−$26k
’22
$30k
’23
$34k
’24
$32k
’25
7.2
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.

2022202320242025
Listed6445
Joined·+1+1+1
No longer listed·310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FIRM FOUNDATIONS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FIRM FOUNDATIONS 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRM FOUNDATIONS 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 FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY?
FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,000 in grants to FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY.
Who is the largest funder of FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY?
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRM FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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