Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,766,784 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($2,606,692). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $813k
What Imani Christian Academy does
Mission
We embrace all children in our society, particularly those who are underserved, transform them into whole adults - spiritually, academically, physically, and socially - and then release them into lives of purpose and contribution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student instruction - we believe that education begins with solid foundations. We meet our children where they are and assure each one is grounded in reading, writing, and mathematics. Then we walk with them as far as their abilities and desire will take them, educating them in the arts, physical sciences, and social sciences, and preparing them for post-secondary education and lifelong learning as our children come to us with many different levels of unmet spiritual and emotional needs. We seek through love to heal their spirits, develop acceptance, forgiveness and self-esteem, and facilitate a new vision within them of their unique potential, the provision for educational activities consistent with good scholarship and our mission statement.
$2,081,659 spent$212,282 earned by the program91% of program spendingStudent activities - we believe that physical education and physical activity are essential for developing the whole child. We teach children to respect their bodies and we train them in healthy living. We believe that personal developments are incomplete unless it includes social development. We teach children life skills and we invest in their interpersonal and cross-cultural competence so that they will become fully functional adults, ready to engage in family, participate in community and contribute to society. The provision for activities that promotes a well rounded christian individual.
$200,480 spent$15,000 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,282,139.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $2.6M (+29%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 20% · 2022 33% · 2023 19% · 2024 12% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Paulo Nzambi
CEO & head of school
Board chair
David J Berardinelli
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $51k → $1.4M.
7 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 59% · 2019 83% · 2020 31% · 2021 40% · 2022 42% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“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 IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.
Against its field
IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like IMANI CHRISTIAN 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% 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 IMANI CHRISTIAN 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 IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
- IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,766,784 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($2,606,692). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $7,766,784 in grants to IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
- CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,606,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 46 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