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INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY

INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,232 to it, the largest being SAMARITAN'S PURSE ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$229k
Net assets
$409k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What International Alert Academy does

Mission

The international a.l.e.r.t academy's mission is to use a military-style structure, intentional discipleship, unique experiences, and professional training to forge extraordinary men who can influence their world for christ.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Alert utilizes a military-style structure, intentional discipleship, unique experiences, and professional skills training to create an environment that facilitates the forging process. Our 9-month training program consists of three phases: basic training---a mentally and physically demanding boot camp, intermediate training--- training designed to develop personal competence, critical thinking, and a service mindset, and advanced training--- professional instruction and mentorship in a man's chosen training field. 149 men trained 33 deployments with over 15,415 service hours to communities.

    $1,407,703 spentof which $232,664 as grants$1,049,277 earned by the program
    93% of program spending
  2. Quest-- is a 3 week summer program designed to inspire young men to choose christ-like manhood. Quest staff strives to teach students the various aspects of christ-like manhood through biblical preaching, useful life skills, sports and recreation, and shared hardships that will equip and encourage them to embrace biblical manhood in a culture that rejects it. Men who complete quest may come back for additional training in quest x which seeks to help young men build christ-like maturity through exciting courses and activities that have been designed to help them continue to grow as young men. 52 individuals trained at 1 event

    $102,025 spentof which $6,750 as grants$110,358 earned by the program
    7% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,509,728.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($826k) Expenses 100 ($995k) Net assets 100 ($660k)2021 Revenue 150 ($1.2M) Expenses 119 ($1.2M) Net assets 108 ($713k)2022 Revenue 144 ($1.2M) Expenses 126 ($1.3M) Net assets 99 ($652k)2023 Revenue 173 ($1.4M) Expenses 152 ($1.5M) Net assets 76 ($502k)2024 Revenue 200 ($1.6M) Expenses 175 ($1.7M) Net assets 62 ($409k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (200)Expenses (175)Net assets (62)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 $931k to $732k (−21%).

$853k
$844k
$931k
$732k
$772k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

27% of INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$169k
’20
$53k
’21
−$64k
’22
−$84k
’23
−$88k
’24
4.4
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed98777
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $7k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $81k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Institute in Basic Life Principles). These are real filings, and they are not money INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY raised.

From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL ALERT 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

INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY.

55%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 82% — 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.

Where its funders are

INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.

RI
NC
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like INTERNATIONAL ALERT 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
40%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • Institutebasic Life Principle(Iblp) · exempt
  • Telos Institute International · exempt
  • Institute in Basic Life Principles · exempt
  • The Romania Iblp Association · exempt
  • Inst in Basic Life Prin Australia · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL ALERT 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 INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY?
INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,232 to it, the largest being SAMARITAN'S PURSE ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $229,232 in grants to INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY?
SAMARITAN'S PURSE is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL ALERT ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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