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GREATHEARTS ARIZONA

GREATHEARTS ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,700,456 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($2,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$45M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$6.7M
Net assets
$10M
17/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Greathearts Arizona does

Mission

Great hearts is a non-profit network of public charter schools dedicated to improving education nationwide through classical preparatory k-12 academies. A great hearts education prepares students to be more than just proficient test takers, but rather, to become great-hearted leaders capable of success throughout their higher education and professional careers. With a curriculum built upon a classical liberal arts tradition and a revolutionary approach to school itself, great hearts cultivates the hearts and minds of students in the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Great hearts is a non-profit network of public charter schools dedicated to improving education nationwide through classical preparatory k-12 academies. A great hearts education prepares students to be more than just proficient test takers, but rather, to become great-hearted leaders capable of success throughout their higher education and professional careers. With a curriculum built upon a classical liberal arts tradition and a revolutionary approach to school itself, great hearts cultivates the hearts and minds of students in the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.

    $39,428,625 spentof which $3,964,619 as grants$41,164,712 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $39,428,625.

02The 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 ($29M) Expenses 100 ($27M) Net assets -124 ($-1895130)2019 Revenue 111 ($32M) Expenses 118 ($31M) Net assets -97 ($-1492548)2020 Revenue 114 ($33M) Expenses 112 ($30M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 108 ($31M) Expenses 112 ($30M) Net assets 194 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 127 ($36M) Expenses 128 ($34M) Net assets 328 ($5.0M)2023 Revenue 153 ($44M) Expenses 154 ($41M) Net assets 526 ($8.1M)2024 Revenue 154 ($44M) Expenses 161 ($43M) Net assets 613 ($9.4M)2025 Revenue 158 ($45M) Expenses 168 ($45M) Net assets 664 ($10M)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (168)Net assets (664)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $194M to $268M (+38%).

$191M
$192M
$194M
$268M
$268M
$263M
$255M
$271M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of GREATHEARTS ARIZONA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 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.

$1.9M
’18
$307k
’19
$2.8M
’20
$1.2M
’21
$2.2M
’22
$2.8M
’23
$1.3M
’24
$239k
’25
5.6
months of
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

Tucker Quayle

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1817121314141512
Joined·+4+2+1+2+5+5+3
No longer listed·5701546
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $2.1M → $586k.

9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 GREATHEARTS ARIZONA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

GREATHEARTS ARIZONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

59% 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 GREATHEARTS ARIZONA.

30%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 56% · 2019 41% · 2020 63% · 2021 27% · 2022 33% · 2023 43% — 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

25% of GREATHEARTS ARIZONA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

GREATHEARTS ARIZONA draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 10 states in all.

WI
NY
IN
PA
UT
CO
AZ
NC
GA
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREATHEARTS ARIZONA is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like GREATHEARTS ARIZONA

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 27 related entities

  • Anthem Preparatory Academy · exempt
  • Archway Academy Arete · exempt
  • Archway Academy Chandler · exempt
  • Archway Academy Cicero · exempt
  • Archway Academy Glendale · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATHEARTS ARIZONA?
GREATHEARTS ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,700,456 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($2,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATHEARTS ARIZONA have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $6,700,456 in grants to GREATHEARTS ARIZONA, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATHEARTS ARIZONA?
CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATHEARTS ARIZONA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 31 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