Colorado · Nonprofit
MACKINTOSH ACADEMY
MACKINTOSH ACADEMY (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,402,395 to it, the largest being RAGLESVILLE LAKE FOUNDATION ($1,510,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Mackintosh Academy does
Mission
Mackintosh Academy is committed to an academic program that emphasizes the creative aspect of giftedness, engenders a passion for life-long learning and provides opportunities for service to the community. The academy strives to ensure that each child develops socially,emotionally, creatively, physically and cognitively in a nurturing and supportive environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mackintosh Academy (the academy, we, us, our) opened in 1977 as the first private academy in colorado to recognize the unique needs of gifted children. Committed to providing the community a rich resource for gifted children, we have two campuses with two separate llc's: our first campus located on three acres in south littleton, colorado, serving 109 students; and our boulder, colorado, campus, established in 2011 and located on twenty-three acres, serving over 155 students. We strive to provide an enjoyable environment for the gifted child. Our goal is to maximize learning potential and promote development of the whole child, as well as to foster a sense of responsibility for one's individual talents. We are committed to an exciting academic program that emphasizes the creative aspects of giftedness, engenders a passion for life-long learning and provides opportunities for service to the community. We work to ensure that each child develops socially, emotionally, creatively, physically, and cognitively in a nurturing and supportive environment.
$7,189,301 spentof which $903,850 as grants$8,489,776 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,189,301.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $15M (+34%).
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 11% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of MACKINTOSH 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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $325k → $344k.
11 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 MACKINTOSH 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
MACKINTOSH ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 MACKINTOSH ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 63% · 2019 34% · 2020 45% · 2021 32% · 2022 49% · 2023 52% — 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
59% of MACKINTOSH ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
MACKINTOSH ACADEMY draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
MACKINTOSH ACADEMY's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MACKINTOSH 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Mackintosh Academy Littleton · disregarded
- Mackintosh Academy Boulder · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MACKINTOSH ACADEMY?
- MACKINTOSH ACADEMY (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,402,395 to it, the largest being RAGLESVILLE LAKE FOUNDATION ($1,510,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MACKINTOSH ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,402,395 in grants to MACKINTOSH ACADEMY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MACKINTOSH ACADEMY?
- RAGLESVILLE LAKE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MACKINTOSH ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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