California · Nonprofit
JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC
JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,581 to it, the largest being JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES FOUNDATION ($67,323). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What John Adams Academies Inc does
Mission
John adams academies, inc. (jaa) is restoring america's heritage by developing servant leaders who are keepers and defenders of the principles of freedom which our founding fathers pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
By combining classical education with servant leadership training and core values, john adams academy develops scholars who can become future leaders in the homes, communities, and country. Through classics, mentoring, and modeling, scholars will be inspired to prepare for their unique mission and will naturally hunger for oncoming responsibilities and future contributions in society. In 2024/2025 enrollment was 2,898 and 1,629 for tk 6 and 7-12 grades, respectively. Continued growth for 2025-2026 is expected.
$64,049,409 spent$1,393,486 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $64,049,409.
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 2022 to 2023, from $93M to $134M (+44%).
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: 2017 97% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 89% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Joseph Benson
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Dean Forman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES 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
JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
100% 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 JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Jaa Facilities LLC · disregarded
- Jaa Lincoln Holdings LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC: 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 JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC?
- JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,581 to it, the largest being JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES FOUNDATION ($67,323). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $102,581 in grants to JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC?
- JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $67,323 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN ADAMS ACADEMIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4 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