Missouri · Nonprofit
FRIENDLY ACADEMY
FRIENDLY ACADEMY (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $746,607 to it, the largest being THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ($746,607). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDLY ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- School Smart Kc Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Arthur & Helen Baer Charitable Foundationshared funders
- Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdnportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDLY 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 FRIENDLY ACADEMY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- School Smart Kc Incshared fundersportfolio matchMO · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur & Helen Baer Charitable Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools for New Orleans Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Action for Healthy Kidsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Education Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate 215portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louis Calder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whirlpool Collective Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perkins Malo Hunter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDLY ACADEMY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDLY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDLY ACADEMY?
- FRIENDLY ACADEMY (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $746,607 to it, the largest being THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ($746,607). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDLY ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $746,607 in grants to FRIENDLY ACADEMY.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDLY ACADEMY?
- THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $746,607 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDLY ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing