Ohio · Nonprofit
HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY
HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,559,503 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($3,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Heritage Classical Academy does
Mission
In partnership with parents, hca develops students who impact the kingdon and their culture b employing a christ-centered curriculum taught with excellence by gifted educators who embrace the classical model of education. Hca emphasized the all-surpassing truth, goodness, and beauty of jesus, striving to make him known, loved and reflected by our students. This is reinforced through purposeful, daily modeling and instructions by teachers and staff both in the classroom and by offering students opportunities to practice christian values in the areas of service, art, music and sports
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oHeritage Classical Academy exists to equip students to think and live for the glory of jesus christ. Hca offers two distinc tracks to serve our families. At the academy, students attend classes on a traditional five days per week schedule. At the study center, we partner with homeschool families two days per week to support their efforts. In partnership with parents and guided by the scriptures, we strive to educate students in the classical traditions, so that they may grow in knowledge, wisdom, and love of our lord jesus christ. We hope to encourage our students to use their gifts in the service of others, for the glory of christ and his church. Located on 2 campuses (peninsula and bainbridge) hca has been in partnership with families since 2003 to provide christ-centered and classical teaching. We offer classes in phonics, reading, grammar, composition, literature, latin, history, logic, math, pre-algebra, algebra I, and science for students in grade k-10th.
$7,234,839 spent$7,370,009 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,234,839.
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.
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 $4.7M to $17M (+267%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
John Lurtz
Chair, trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $13k → $655k.
14 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 HERITAGE CLASSICAL 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
HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 42% · 2022 75% · 2023 46% — 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
43% of HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
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
88% of HERITAGE CLASSICAL 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 $900k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HERITAGE CLASSICAL 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 HERITAGE CLASSICAL 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 HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY?
- HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,559,503 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($3,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $7,559,503 in grants to HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 25 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