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I3 ACADEMY

I3 ACADEMY (Alabama) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,082,060 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($2,043,434). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$20M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
$1.8M
19/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What I3 Academy does

Mission

To empower learners to become agents of change who solve the problems they see in their world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To empower learners to become agents of change who solve the problems they see in their world.

    $16,169,221 spent$4,315,889 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,169,221.

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 ($250k) Expenses 100 ($133k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2022 Revenue 3971 ($9.9M) Expenses 7376 ($9.8M) Net assets -82 ($-95348)2024 Revenue 7089 ($18M) Expenses 12414 ($17M) Net assets -27 ($-31528)2025 Revenue 8084 ($20M) Expenses 13785 ($18M) Net assets 1546 ($1.8M)
2018202220242025
Revenue (8084)Expenses (13785)Net assets (1546)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 $18M to $4.1M (−77%).

$117k
$1.7M
$18M
$4.1M
2018202220242025
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
2022
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 71% · 2024 84% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of I3 ACADEMY’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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$117k
’18
$96k
’22
$1.2M
’24
$1.8M
’25
0.0
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

Thomas Bice

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2018202220242025
Listed4121718
Joined···+1
No longer listed···0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $50k → $1.3M.

6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 I3 ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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

I3 ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

79% 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 I3 ACADEMY.

20%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 42% · 2021 27% · 2022 32% · 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

36% of I3 ACADEMY'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

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

56% of I3 ACADEMY's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

ID
IL
NY
NV
CA
CO
AZ
DC
AL

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

I3 ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)87% · top quartile

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

Organizations like I3 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 Alabama

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 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds I3 ACADEMY?
I3 ACADEMY (Alabama) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,082,060 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($2,043,434). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does I3 ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $10,082,060 in grants to I3 ACADEMY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of I3 ACADEMY?
NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA is the largest funder on record, with $2,043,434 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like I3 ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 38 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