Tennessee · Nonprofit
KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC
KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,027 to it, the largest being NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Knowledge Academies Inc does
Mission
The mission of knowledge academies (ka) is to prepare students to make the best academic and social choices leading to a successful life connected to college, community, creativity, and culture. Our alumni will graduate college ready and remain connected to their community. Our families will support the development of highly effective student leadership habits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Student instruction and services
$7,735,922 spent$572,699 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,735,922.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $26M (+1822%).
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 99% · 2018 96% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 37% · 2023 94% · 2024 94% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC’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.
Board chair
James Bristol Jd
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 KNOWLEDGE 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
KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27 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
KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KNOWLEDGE 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Reach Early Learning LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KNOWLEDGE 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 KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC?
- KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,027 to it, the largest being NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,027 in grants to KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC?
- NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNOWLEDGE ACADEMIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 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