Texas · Nonprofit
LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY
LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,371,286 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,083,600). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $-258237
What Lionheart Children's Academy does
Mission
Lionheart Children's Academy believes in strong foundations, and the laying of those foundations starts early. Our team is dedicated to providing a place where our youngest learners will experience love, security, and joy while engaging in unlimited opportunities to grow and develop. The organization believes and understands the importance of the early childhood years, and is passionate about helping children develop the social, cognitive, and physical skills they'll need as they progress through their education using a holistic approach designed to help children accomplish their future goals. This purposeful and holistic approach to early care and education ensures that the child has a strong and healthy foundation for learning and for life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Lionheart Children's Academy provides twenty early-childhood programs for children from infancy to twelve years old designed to provide developmentally appropriate activities that build children's skill sets, their confidence, and self-esteem. Lionheart's curriculum is designed to address the needs of the whole child through social/emotional development, physical development, cognitive development, language development, and spiritual development. The academy provides parents with flexible options, excellent care, and peace of mind so they can be effective in their workplace.
$35,961,337 spent$29,365,081 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,961,337.
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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $7.0M (−45%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 23% · 2023 14% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Jeff Lamb
CEO
Board chair
Payton Mayes
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $270k → $803k.
14 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 LIONHEART CHILDREN'S 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
LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 46% · 2019 44% · 2020 49% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% — 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
43% of LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
61% of LIONHEART CHILDREN'S 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 $2.1M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 249 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 249 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Skylark Camps Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIONHEART CHILDREN'S 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY?
- LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,371,286 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,083,600). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,371,286 in grants to LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,083,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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