Tennessee · Nonprofit
FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC
FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,886,763 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,139,500). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $78M
What Franklin Road Academy Inc does
Mission
Franklin road academy provides a challenging educational experience in an inclusive christian community with an unwavering commitment to develop leaders of integrity and purpose. We will inspire in our students a lifelong love of learning through a dynamic academic program which will prepare them for success in life; encourage students to discover their passions through opportunities in academics, the arts, athletics, and servant leadership; nurture leaders of integrity, guided by christian principles, compelled to lead lives of compassionate global citizenship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Instructional & student activities - education for grades pre k-12 for approximately 1,000 students, instruction for athletics, band, day care and day camp, and auxiliary activities (cafeteria, concessions for athletic events, annual, bookstore and special student activities).
$30,396,046 spentof which $2,403,581 as grants$33,739,302 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $30,396,046.
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 2024 to 2025, from $79M to $104M (+32%).
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.
18% of FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Randy Chase
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $189k → $3.7M.
22 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 32% · 2019 28% · 2020 44% · 2021 43% · 2022 30% · 2023 56% — 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
68% of FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
71% of FRANKLIN ROAD 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 $5.2M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FRANKLIN ROAD 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC?
- FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,886,763 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,139,500). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $17,886,763 in grants to FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,139,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing