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LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC

LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $434,623 to it, the largest being A FOR ARIZONA ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$50M
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$435k
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve6.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($16M) Expenses 100 ($15M) Net assets -404 ($-1349945)2019 Revenue 154 ($25M) Expenses 159 ($24M) Net assets -236 ($-789306)2020 Revenue 184 ($29M) Expenses 187 ($28M) Net assets 100 ($334k)2021 Revenue 239 ($38M) Expenses 249 ($38M) Net assets 263 ($879k)2022 Revenue 292 ($47M) Expenses 283 ($43M) Net assets 570 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 326 ($52M) Expenses 313 ($48M) Net assets 1993 ($6.7M)2024 Revenue 338 ($54M) Expenses 325 ($49M) Net assets 3475 ($12M)2025 Revenue 315 ($50M) Expenses 319 ($48M) Net assets 4132 ($14M)
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Revenue (315)Expenses (319)Net assets (4132)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2022 4% · 2023 6% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$884k
18
$561k
19
$1.1M
20
$545k
21
$3.9M
22
$4.8M
23
$5.0M
24
$2.2M
25
6.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $50k → $3k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)4% 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 LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE 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

LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC.

69%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 92% · 2022 99% · 2023 62%diversifying over time.

“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

25% of LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 6 states in all.

CA
CO
VA
AZ
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
20
21
22
23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $425k on record.

Federal$425k
grants $425kcontracts $0
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21
23
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$425k

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 LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC?
LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $434,623 to it, the largest being A FOR ARIZONA ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $434,623 in grants to LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC?
A FOR ARIZONA is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEMAN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing