Utah · Nonprofit
Good Foundations Academy
Good Foundations Academy (Utah) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,514 to it, the largest being PACIFICORP FOUNDATION AKA PACIFIC POWER FOUNDATION AKA ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER FOUNDATI ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Good Foundations Academy does
Mission
To provide excellence and fairness in education through a common educational foundation our goal is to provide each student with knowledge, skills, and character through strong parent-teacher-student partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To operate a public charter school for students from kindergarten through grade six.
$3,990,224 spent$17,044 earned by the program94% of program spendingTo operate a school lunch program.
$265,502 spent$64,685 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,255,726.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $8.3M to $9.1M (+10%).
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: 2018 97% · 2019 96% · 2020 96% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Good Foundations Academy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Erwin
Executive Director
Board chair
Jamie Walker
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $44 → $128.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Good 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Good Foundations Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Good Foundations Academy draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $514 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.
Against its field
Good Foundations Academy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Good 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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Good 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 Good Foundations Academy?
- Good Foundations Academy (Utah) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,514 to it, the largest being PACIFICORP FOUNDATION AKA PACIFIC POWER FOUNDATION AKA ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER FOUNDATI ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Good Foundations Academy have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,514 in grants to Good Foundations Academy, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Good Foundations Academy?
- PACIFICORP FOUNDATION AKA PACIFIC POWER FOUNDATION AKA ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER FOUNDATI is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Good Foundations Academy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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