North Carolina · Nonprofit
LUMINA ACADEMY
LUMINA ACADEMY (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,100 to it, the largest being THE KI FOUNDATION ($197,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- —
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Lumina Academy does
Mission
Lumina Academy (la)is an online distance learning school designed to be made available to independent learning centers located all over the world. La will provide access to online educational curriculum as well as support and help the centers acquire necessary equipment for their students to use the online curriculum. Access to the online curriculum is exclusively for independent learning centers that have entered into an agreement with la to use the materials for the purposes endorsed by la. La's ultimate mission is to utilize the online educational platform to lower the cost per student and maximize the number of students receiving and exposed to a high quality education. The board envisions an accredited, high-quality, comprehensive education for the maximum number of disenfranchised children worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Funds received were used to build infrastructure of the organization. Pilot testing in now in progress in malaysia.
$550 spent33% of program spendingFunds received were used to build infrastructure of the organization. Pilot testing in now in progress in malaysia.
$1,121 spent67% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,671.
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 2018 to 2019, from $107k to $130k (+22%).
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.
100% of LUMINA ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $120k → $21.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LUMINA 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
LUMINA ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of LUMINA ACADEMY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LUMINA ACADEMY's revenue fell 98% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LUMINA 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUMINA 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 LUMINA ACADEMY?
- LUMINA ACADEMY (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,100 to it, the largest being THE KI FOUNDATION ($197,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUMINA ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $197,100 in grants to LUMINA ACADEMY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUMINA ACADEMY?
- THE KI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $197,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUMINA 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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