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GRACE ACADEMY

GRACE ACADEMY (Connecticut) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,537,855 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($885,000). 45 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.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2025
63
Funders on record
$4.5M
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
45/63 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%

Against its field

GRACE ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($892k) Expenses 100 ($883k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 119 ($1.1M) Expenses 111 ($980k) Net assets 107 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 260 ($2.3M) Expenses 118 ($1.0M) Net assets 180 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 272 ($2.4M) Expenses 136 ($1.2M) Net assets 259 ($4.4M)2022 Revenue 197 ($1.8M) Expenses 136 ($1.2M) Net assets 255 ($4.3M)2023 Revenue 157 ($1.4M) Expenses 158 ($1.4M) Net assets 275 ($4.7M)2024 Revenue 176 ($1.6M) Expenses 161 ($1.4M) Net assets 299 ($5.1M)2025 Revenue 254 ($2.3M) Expenses 167 ($1.5M) Net assets 342 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (254)Expenses (167)Net assets (342)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 16% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of GRACE ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
18
$78k
19
$1.3M
20
$1.2M
21
$551k
22
$4k
23
$155k
24
$792k
25
3.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $68k → $608k.

14 of 63 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 GRACE ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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

GRACE ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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

78% 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 GRACE ACADEMY.

20%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 33% · 2019 24% · 2020 16% · 2021 61% · 2022 24% · 2023 20%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.

How long its funders stay

47% of GRACE ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 GRACE ACADEMY'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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Connecticut funders.

IL
NY
MA
CT
DE
NC
TX
FL

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 63 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 GRACE 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 Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 14%Fundraising 12%

Governance

25
board members
92%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRACE 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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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 GRACE ACADEMY?
GRACE ACADEMY (Connecticut) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,537,855 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($885,000). 45 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 GRACE ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $4,537,855 in grants to GRACE ACADEMY, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRACE ACADEMY?
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $885,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRACE ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 63funders 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