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HOPE ACADEMY INC

HOPE ACADEMY INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,538,139 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($12,183,111). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$32M
Funders on record
138
Grants received
$61M
Net assets
$44M
99/138 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 91%
01What it does

What Hope Academy Inc does

Mission

The organization operates a k-12 school in urban minneapolis which provides a classical christian education, with a goal of fostering hope in god within the inner-city neighborhoods of minneapolis by providing youth with a remarkable god-centered education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The school accepts students in all grades from kindergarten up to twelve. All expenses went toward providing a high quality, christ-centered education.

    $35,488,617 spentof which $23,990,748 as grants$9,773,945 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,488,617.

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 ($9.4M) Expenses 100 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($7.9M)2018 Revenue 84 ($7.9M) Expenses 112 ($6.0M) Net assets 162 ($13M)2019 Revenue 109 ($10M) Expenses 119 ($6.4M) Net assets 211 ($17M)2020 Revenue 100 ($9.5M) Expenses 141 ($7.6M) Net assets 235 ($19M)2021 Revenue 132 ($12M) Expenses 161 ($8.6M) Net assets 284 ($22M)2022 Revenue 145 ($14M) Expenses 183 ($9.8M) Net assets 331 ($26M)2023 Revenue 286 ($27M) Expenses 217 ($12M) Net assets 526 ($42M)2024 Revenue 337 ($32M) Expenses 692 ($37M) Net assets 463 ($37M)2025 Revenue 340 ($32M) Expenses 465 ($25M) Net assets 555 ($44M)
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Revenue (340)Expenses (465)Net assets (555)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 2022 to 2023, from $27M to $43M (+61%).

$11M
$15M
$17M
$20M
$23M
$27M
$43M
$38M
$47M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 15% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 5% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

63% of HOPE ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.1M
’17
$1.9M
’18
$3.9M
’19
$1.9M
’20
$3.8M
’21
$3.9M
’22
$15M
’23
−$5.3M
’24
$7.2M
’25
7.4
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.

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Listed101114131312121518
Joined·+1+4+0+2+0+0+3+4
No longer listed·01121001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $12M.

28 of 138 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 HOPE ACADEMY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 138 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

HOPE ACADEMY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

41% 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 HOPE ACADEMY INC.

20%
largest funder
38%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 31% · 2019 36% · 2020 20% · 2021 20% · 2022 50% · 2023 27% — 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

59% of HOPE ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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

74% of HOPE ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

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MN
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NC
GA
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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

HOPE ACADEMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

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

Organizations like HOPE ACADEMY 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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 3%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
85%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Hope Academy Holding Company · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC?
HOPE ACADEMY INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,538,139 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($12,183,111). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOPE ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 138 organizations giving $60,538,139 in grants to HOPE ACADEMY INC, 99 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE ACADEMY INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,183,111 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPE ACADEMY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 138 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