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HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC

HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,876,743 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,239,420). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$14M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
$8.4M
9/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Harding Academy of Memphis Inc does

Mission

Harding academy of memphis, inc. Is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing educational & instrustional services to approximately 702 students from pre-kindergarten to grade 12

    $12,476,198 spentof which $3,161,006 as grants$12,548,572 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,476,198.

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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2018 Revenue 96 ($11M) Expenses 98 ($11M) Net assets 98 ($10M)2019 Revenue 96 ($11M) Expenses 95 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2021 Revenue 101 ($12M) Expenses 91 ($11M) Net assets 91 ($9.4M)2022 Revenue 98 ($11M) Expenses 97 ($11M) Net assets 80 ($8.2M)2023 Revenue 103 ($12M) Expenses 109 ($13M) Net assets 75 ($7.7M)2024 Revenue 121 ($14M) Expenses 111 ($13M) Net assets 81 ($8.3M)2025 Revenue 121 ($14M) Expenses 122 ($14M) Net assets 82 ($8.4M)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (122)Net assets (82)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 2021 to 2022, from $19M to $17M (−7%).

$24M
$24M
$24M
$19M
$17M
$18M
$20M
$21M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’17
−$210k
’18
$165k
’19
$1.1M
’21
$39k
’22
−$727k
’23
$1.2M
’24
−$113k
’25
0.5
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

Brent Patterson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2223201921211718
Joined·+1+3·+2+0+0+2
No longer listed·06·0041
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $76k → $545k.

11 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS 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

HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC.

58%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 71% · 2019 45% · 2020 86% · 2021 85% · 2022 90% · 2023 56% — 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

29% of HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

97% of HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC'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 $118k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC's revenue grew 21% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC

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 Tennessee

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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 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC?
HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,876,743 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,239,420). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,876,743 in grants to HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,239,420 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing