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HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES

HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,503,800 to it, the largest being BERNARD J AND CAMILLE CEBELAK FOUNDATION ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$333k
6/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Harmel Academy of the Trades does

Mission

Harmel Academy of the Trades is a post-secondary institution in michigan where men become experts in skilled trade while growing in their catholic faith.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Harmel Academy of the Trades provides post-secondary technical training in skilled trades. This is a tuition-based academy that is a residential catholic trade school for men.

    $625,740 spentof which $13,400 as grants$510,058 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $625,740.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($610k) Expenses 100 ($374k) Net assets 100 ($272k)2022 Revenue 152 ($930k) Expenses 215 ($806k) Net assets 146 ($396k)2023 Revenue 243 ($1.5M) Expenses 372 ($1.4M) Net assets 38 ($102k)2024 Revenue 138 ($841k) Expenses 240 ($898k) Net assets 17 ($45k)2025 Revenue 216 ($1.3M) Expenses 275 ($1.0M) Net assets 122 ($333k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (216)Expenses (275)Net assets (122)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 2024 to 2025, from $682k to $906k (+33%).

$399k
$570k
$711k
$682k
$906k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

61% of HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$236k
’21
$124k
’22
$86k
’23
−$57k
’24
$288k
’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

Michael Preston

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed56677
Joined·+2+0+2+0
No longer listed·1010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $466k.

6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES’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

HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

32% 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 HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES.

27%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 62% · 2022 59% · 2023 60% — 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 HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

70% of HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
IN
OH
KY
VA
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $383k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 24%Fundraising 15%

Governance

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

Public support

53%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES?
HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,503,800 to it, the largest being BERNARD J AND CAMILLE CEBELAK FOUNDATION ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,503,800 in grants to HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES?
BERNARD J AND CAMILLE CEBELAK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 19 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