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NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565,483 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($1,200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies does
Mission
The northwest academy of aerospace and advanced technologies (neaaat) is a world-class, innovative stem school that inspires and prepares students with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to pursue high-demand jobs and careers of the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Located in elizabeth city, north carolina, the Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies is a public school operated by a local nonprofit corporation. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the organization served approximately 732 students from pasquotank county and surrounding areas.
$7,734,835 spent$261,106 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,734,835.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.5M to $12M (+159%).
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: 2017 85% · 2018 88% · 2019 87% · 2020 95% · 2021 95% · 2022 98% · 2023 94% · 2024 92% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 5 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.
Chief executive
Andrew Harris
CEO
Board chair
Dr Joseph Peel
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $210k → $563k.
1 of 7 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 NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES’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
NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — 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
77% of NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES'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. $1k 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
NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: 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 NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES?
- NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565,483 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($1,200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,565,483 in grants to NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES?
- THE GOLDEN LEAF INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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