Florida · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC
INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,735 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,235). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Independence Classical Academy Inc does
Mission
Independence classical academy exists to provide a disciplined and highly engaging learning environment rich in scholarship, character building, citizenship, moral virtue, civics, and liberal arts. This time-tested, classical liberal arts education will ensure students are highly prepared, through rigorous and relevant core content with an emphasis on literacy, to be highly productive and successful citizens with a strong sense of character and civic responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Independence classical academy exists to fill a role in public education that is currently missing in st. Lucie county. A virtuous environment in which to provide an academically rigorous curriculum where good moral virtue is not only encouraged, but expected. A place where teachers can teach, and students will learn. Offering a setting free from digital learning and the distractions of screens and pressures of social media that many kids are fixated on in today's world, we are able to hone in on creating critical thinkers that are fluent readers, writers, and speakers. Students in our academy are being taught that character counts, and that they are capable of hard things. Kids are getting outdoors, experiencing learning for all learning styles, and being held accountable for their own learning gains, as opposed to spending ten months learning how to pass a standardized test. The culture at ica is that of a family, and the gains our students make academically are largely tied to the environment in which they are taught, a small, highly structured school that focuses on knowing all of our kids, and getting them to reach their full potential.
$5,863,897 spent$6,411,254 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,863,897.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $347k to $11M (+3123%).
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.
0% of INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Sandy Howard
Executive director
Board chair
Clay Becton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC’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
INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
71% of INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $11k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL 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 Florida
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Freedom Charter Property Holdings LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC?
- INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,735 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,235). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,735 in grants to INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2 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