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North Metro Flex Academy

North Metro Flex Academy (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $445 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($345). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.8M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$445
Net assets
$-1157605
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What North Metro Flex Academy does

Mission

North Metro Flex Academy's mission is to prepare a diverse community of elementary and middle school students to be successful in high school, college and in their chosen vocation through a flexible, individualized learning experience that develops analytical, compassionate, disciplined and self-directed learners.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. North Metro Flex Academy enrolled approximately 180 students during the 2024-25 school year. The school continues to work to serve historically underserved populations.

    $3,114,533 spent$13,100 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,114,533.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M)2019 Revenue 109 ($3.6M) Expenses 91 ($3.5M)2020 Revenue 112 ($3.6M) Expenses 106 ($4.1M)2021 Revenue 120 ($3.9M) Expenses 107 ($4.1M)2022 Revenue 131 ($4.3M) Expenses 103 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 126 ($4.1M) Expenses 95 ($3.6M)2024 Revenue 116 ($3.8M) Expenses 96 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 117 ($3.8M) Expenses 93 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (93)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 $2.3M to $2.9M (+27%).

$2.7M
$3.0M
$2.5M
$2.3M
$2.9M
$2.3M
$1.7M
$1.2M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of North Metro Flex 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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$549k
’18
$95k
’19
−$406k
’20
−$149k
’21
$369k
’22
$499k
’23
$119k
’24
$279k
’25
1.3
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

Michael Leary

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed56556556
Joined·+3+1+1+2+0+0+1
No longer listed·2211100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $237 → $208.

Funder
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 North Metro Flex Academy’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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

North Metro Flex Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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

78% 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 North Metro Flex Academy.

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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.

Where its funders are

78% of North Metro Flex 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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

North Metro Flex Academy runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like North Metro Flex 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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds North Metro Flex Academy?
North Metro Flex Academy (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $445 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($345). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does North Metro Flex Academy have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $445 in grants to North Metro Flex Academy, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of North Metro Flex Academy?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $345 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like North Metro Flex Academy find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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