Minnesota · Nonprofit
PROVIDENCE ACADEMY
PROVIDENCE ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,653,721 to it, the largest being CUMMINS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,257,033). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $105M
What Providence Academy does
Mission
Providence Academy is a roman catholic college-preparatory school with a comprehensive, core-knowledge curriculum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Providence Academy operates as a roman catholic college-preparatory school. Currently, 945 students are enrolled in grades pre-kindergarten through 12. The school employs more than 100 faculty and staff, including four full-time counselors (guidance and college), a full-time nurse and 2 part-time security officers. About 65% of faculty members hold master's degrees and roughly 8% hold a phd.as a member of the minnesota state high school league's independent metro athletic conference (imac), Providence Academy offers 30 sports and many additional activities. Approximately 80% of high school students participate in athletics and many more benefit from additional activities and clubs.
$20,586,884 spentof which $1,463,072 as grants$20,321,082 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,586,884.
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 2023 to 2024, from $102M to $110M (+8%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of PROVIDENCE ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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.
Board chair
Robert Cummins
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $8.3M.
16 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 PROVIDENCE ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
PROVIDENCE ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 62% · 2019 79% · 2020 36% · 2021 53% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% — 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
50% of PROVIDENCE ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
88% of PROVIDENCE ACADEMY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
PROVIDENCE ACADEMY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PROVIDENCE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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 PROVIDENCE 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 PROVIDENCE ACADEMY?
- PROVIDENCE ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,653,721 to it, the largest being CUMMINS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,257,033). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROVIDENCE ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $23,653,721 in grants to PROVIDENCE ACADEMY, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROVIDENCE ACADEMY?
- CUMMINS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,257,033 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROVIDENCE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing