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LEMMON TREE ACADEMY

LEMMON TREE ACADEMY (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $106,000 to it, the largest being FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC ($106,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$270k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$106k
Grants received
$278k
Net assets
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%

Against its field

LEMMON TREE ACADEMY receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $106k to it.

Operating margin95% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve267.9mo · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of LEMMON TREE ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of LEMMON TREE ACADEMY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

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.

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.

Organizations like LEMMON TREE ACADEMY

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 North Carolina

Frankie Lemmon School and Developmental Center91%Frankie Lemmon Foundation Inc88%The Fletcher Academy School of Achievement Inc82%Learning Together Inc81%The Learning Community School Inc80%Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood80%Falls Lake Academy80%Davidson Charter Academy80%

Nationally

Frankie Lemmon School and Developmental Center91%Frankie Lemmon Foundation Inc88%The Learning Tree84%The Fletcher Academy School of Achievement Inc82%The Child School-Legacy High School82%Language & Literacy Academy for Learning Inc82%Lead Academy82%Centreville Layton School81%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

2% of spending goes to programs.

Program 2%Management 98%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Frankie Lemmon Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Frankie Lemmon School & Developmental Center · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEMMON TREE 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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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 LEMMON TREE ACADEMY?
LEMMON TREE ACADEMY (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $106,000 to it, the largest being FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC ($106,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEMMON TREE ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $106,000 in grants to LEMMON TREE ACADEMY.
Who is the largest funder of LEMMON TREE ACADEMY?
FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $106,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEMMON TREE ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing