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SCHOLAR ACADEMY

SCHOLAR ACADEMY (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,288 to it, the largest being THE STANLEY R WOLFE FOUNDATION ($1,288). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.2M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$5.3M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Scholar Academy does

Mission

Scholar Academy students will enjoy a rich, engaging, and student-centered educational program that is focused on improving and challenging students at all levels.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholar Academy will build upon a foundation of academic excellence using creative problem solving, cooperative learning, experiential learning, and reflection throughout academic disciplines.

    $5,728,386 spent$139,411 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,728,386.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($164k)2018 Revenue 122 ($4.6M) Expenses 109 ($3.8M) Net assets 576 ($948k)2019 Revenue 124 ($4.7M) Expenses 131 ($4.5M) Net assets 663 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 140 ($5.2M) Expenses 146 ($5.0M) Net assets 784 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 159 ($6.0M) Expenses 157 ($5.4M) Net assets 1034 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 167 ($6.3M) Expenses 160 ($5.5M) Net assets 1480 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 179 ($6.7M) Expenses 167 ($5.8M) Net assets 2065 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 196 ($7.4M) Expenses 195 ($6.8M) Net assets 2436 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 219 ($8.2M) Expenses 201 ($7.0M) Net assets 3211 ($5.3M)
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Revenue (219)Expenses (201)Net assets (3211)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 2017 to 2018, from $5.7M to $13M (+131%).

$5.7M
$13M
$13M
$13M
$13M
$14M
$15M
$15M
$16M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of SCHOLAR 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. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$295k
’17
$783k
’18
$142k
’19
$199k
’20
$535k
’21
$733k
’22
$962k
’23
$609k
’24
$1.3M
’25
2.5
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

Dusty Griffith

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed555645557
Joined·+0+1+1+0+1+0+3+3
No longer listed·01020031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SCHOLAR 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

SCHOLAR ACADEMY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 1 state in all.

CA

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

SCHOLAR ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

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

Government funding SCHOLAR ACADEMY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $178k on record.

Federal$178k
grants $178kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$178k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like SCHOLAR 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 Utah

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

UT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOLAR 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 SCHOLAR ACADEMY?
SCHOLAR ACADEMY (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,288 to it, the largest being THE STANLEY R WOLFE FOUNDATION ($1,288). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCHOLAR ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,288 in grants to SCHOLAR ACADEMY.
Who is the largest funder of SCHOLAR ACADEMY?
THE STANLEY R WOLFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,288 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCHOLAR ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 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