Arizona · Nonprofit
LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY
LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,600 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($34,798). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY has grown faster than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Acair Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- C & J Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- John M Paz Fdn 12 23 10 John M Paz & Bbhtcdeshared funders
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.
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 9% · 2022 3% · 2023 7% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $15k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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: $622k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greathearts Arizona). These are real filings, and they are not money LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY raised.
From the IRS filings of LINCOLN PREPARATORY 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
LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 86% · 2022 95% · 2023 55% — 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 LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
80% of LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
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.
- Acair Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAZ · backs 2 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- C & J Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAZ · backs 3 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- John M Paz Fdn 12 23 10 John M Paz & Bbhtcdeshared fundersDE · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- A for Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Leadership Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Tuition Connection Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Education Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Musical Instrument Museumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University of Indianapolisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Malone Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $376k on record.
- Department of Education$376k
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 LINCOLN PREPARATORY 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 26 related entities
- Archway Classical Academy Arete · exempt
- Archway Classical Academy Chandler · exempt
- Archway Classical Academy Cicero · exempt
- Archway Classical Academy Glendale · exempt
- Archway Classical Academy Lincoln · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINCOLN PREPARATORY 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.
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 LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
- LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,600 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($34,798). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $51,600 in grants to LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN PREPARATORY ACADEMY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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