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MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY

MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,912 to it, the largest being OHIO COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ($60,912). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.1M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$61k
Net assets
$-1620512
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Montgomery Preparatory Academy does

Mission

The purposes for which the corporation was formed, as stated in its Articles of Incorporation, are to establish and run a charter school in the state of Ohio for the benefit of the children, of the community, and to engage in any other activities incidental to the foregoing purposes for which a corporation may be organized under Chapter 1702 of the Ohio Revised Code; provided, however, that the Corporation is organized and shall at all times be operated exclusively within the confines of IRC 501c3.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Instructional services for children in grades K-8 for the 2024-2025 school year.

    $3,419,341 spentof which $693,969 as grants$3,117,362 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,419,341.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 143 ($2.5M) Expenses 138 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 167 ($2.9M) Expenses 152 ($3.3M)2022 Revenue 194 ($3.4M) Expenses 163 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 216 ($3.8M) Expenses 177 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 231 ($4.1M) Expenses 196 ($4.2M)2025 Revenue 176 ($3.1M) Expenses 159 ($3.4M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (176)Expenses (159)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 2019 to 2020, from $218k to $1.5M (+604%).

$218k
$1.5M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.6M
$1.3M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$381k
’19
−$440k
’20
−$314k
’21
−$72k
’22
$15k
’23
−$126k
’24
−$302k
’25
0.6
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

Shirley Wilkerson

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed4455555
Joined·+0+1+0+0+4+0
No longer listed·000040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $26k.

Funder
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of MONTGOMERY 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH

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

’20
’21
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,912 to it, the largest being OHIO COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ($60,912). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $60,912 in grants to MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
OHIO COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $60,912 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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