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LIVE OAK ACADEMY

LIVE OAK ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,890 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($155,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$219k
Net assets
$721k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Live Oak Academy does

Mission

Education support for home schooling

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education support for home schooling

    $2,260,978 spentof which $141,526 as grants$2,403,327 earned by the program
    126% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,789,780. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets -36 ($-51545)2021 Revenue 103 ($1.9M) Expenses 104 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($142k)2022 Revenue 109 ($2.0M) Expenses 103 ($1.8M) Net assets 250 ($356k)2023 Revenue 112 ($2.0M) Expenses 113 ($2.0M) Net assets 299 ($426k)2024 Revenue 123 ($2.2M) Expenses 120 ($2.1M) Net assets 407 ($579k)2025 Revenue 132 ($2.4M) Expenses 130 ($2.3M) Net assets 507 ($721k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (132)Expenses (130)Net assets (507)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $272k to $464k (+71%).

$194k
$272k
$464k
$537k
$709k
$850k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

6% of LIVE OAK ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$92k
’20
$78k
’21
$213k
’22
$70k
’23
$153k
’24
$142k
’25
9.6
months of
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

Tayloe Stansbury

Board chairman, treasurer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed101010101010
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $600 → $71k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 LIVE OAK 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

LIVE OAK ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

97% 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 LIVE OAK ACADEMY.

71%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 69% · 2022 67% · 2023 71% — 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

60% of LIVE OAK ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

97% of LIVE OAK 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 $7k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from California funders.

IL
CA
NC
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIVE OAK ACADEMY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve9.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LIVE OAK 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds LIVE OAK ACADEMY?
LIVE OAK ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,890 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($155,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LIVE OAK ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $218,890 in grants to LIVE OAK ACADEMY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIVE OAK ACADEMY?
THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIVE OAK ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing