Minnesota · Nonprofit
Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087
Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087 (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,336 to it, the largest being PRAIRIECARE FUND ($6,141). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $572k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $0
What Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087 does
Mission
The Sage Academy Charter School closed on August 30, 2024.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Sage Academy Charter School closed on August 30, 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The Sage Academy Charter School closed on August 30, 2024. Sage Academy is a student-centered educational setting providing life preparedness for a global community and global environment. Sage Academy seeks to provide an academic environment of excellence for secondary students which encourages life-long learning; respect for a diverse, global community; awareness of the Earth's limited resources; and understanding of social justice issues throughout the world.Sage Academy Offers:1. Small class sizes2. Individualized learning plans for every student3. Innovating programming- cross-age and interdisciplinary curriculum4. Community-based, experiential learning
$195,140 spent$32,649 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $195,140.
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 2024 to 2025, from $526k to $0 (−100%).
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 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 98% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 94% · 2024 94% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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.
Board chair
Dean Heller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $6k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195 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
Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087: 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 Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087?
- Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087 (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,336 to it, the largest being PRAIRIECARE FUND ($6,141). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087 have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $9,336 in grants to Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087?
- PRAIRIECARE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,141 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087 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 4 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