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Friends of the Language Academy Inc

Friends of the Language Academy Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,455 to it, the largest being PRICE PHILANTHROPIES FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$124k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$175k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Friends of the Language Academy Inc does

Mission

To benefit all students at the San Diego USD Language Academy Magnet School by providing financial support for teacher grants, classroom resources, schoolwide initiatives, and academic and cultural enrichment programs that expand educational opportunities and strengthen the school?s language-immersion mission.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide classroom supplies and school equipment for teachers, staff and students of the Language Academy

    $13,187 spentof which $76,336 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,187.

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 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($31k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2018 Revenue 118 ($57k) Expenses 171 ($53k) Net assets 106 ($73k)2019 Revenue 107 ($52k) Expenses 212 ($66k) Net assets 86 ($59k)2020 Revenue 17 ($8k) Expenses 104 ($32k) Net assets 51 ($35k)2021 Revenue 8 ($4k) Expenses 56 ($17k) Net assets 31 ($22k)2022 Revenue 185 ($89k) Expenses 51 ($16k) Net assets 137 ($95k)2023 Revenue 169 ($81k) Expenses 137 ($43k) Net assets 193 ($133k)2024 Revenue 211 ($102k) Expenses 276 ($86k) Net assets 217 ($150k)2025 Revenue 258 ($124k) Expenses 318 ($99k) Net assets 254 ($175k)
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Revenue (258)Expenses (318)Net assets (254)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $22k to $95k (+338%).

$69k
$73k
$59k
$35k
$22k
$95k
$133k
$150k
$175k
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Total assets

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Friends of the Language Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
$4k
’18
−$14k
’19
−$24k
’20
−$14k
’21
$73k
’22
$39k
’23
$16k
’24
$26k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $53 → $10k.

Funder
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'22
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total
funders
1
1
2
3
2

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Friends of the Language 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Friends of the Language Academy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.

“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

97% of Friends of the Language Academy Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $756 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Friends of the Language Academy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Language Academy Inc: 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 Friends of the Language Academy Inc?
Friends of the Language Academy Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,455 to it, the largest being PRICE PHILANTHROPIES FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends of the Language Academy Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $21,455 in grants to Friends of the Language Academy Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Language Academy Inc?
PRICE PHILANTHROPIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of the Language Academy Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 3 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