Illinois · Nonprofit
SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY
SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,615 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($109,550). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $318k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Science and Arts Academy does
Mission
To educate gifted children in an academically differentiated and enriched environment while recognizing the unique development of each child. Our supportive community encourages students to embrace their potential and cultivates their academic abilities, creative talents, and emotional growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Science and Arts Academy (saa) believes that every gifted child has the right to an education that is appropriate to his or her potential. Consistent with this belief, saa creates a stimulating learning experience by providing educational offerings suited to our students' varied levels of development. We believe that saa's purpose is to promote, facilitate, and ignite student learning further, the best educational experience for a gifted child guided by experts in gifted education and incorporates three components:1) robust academics which appropriately challenges each student, 2) extensive opportunities for artistic expression which fosters creativity and builds greater self-confidence, 3) social and emotional development which allows students to gain skills for life-long success. We deliver a high quality educational experience to over 238 students in grades junior kindergarten though eighth grade, 172 days a year.
$7,052,967 spentof which $1,605,425 as grants$8,034,244 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,052,967.
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.
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 $14M to $13M (−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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 11% · 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kirsten Bedway
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $60k.
9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 45% · 2019 46% · 2020 78% · 2021 35% · 2022 27% · 2023 55% — 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
55% of SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
75% of SCIENCE AND ARTS 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 $78k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like SCIENCE AND ARTS 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCIENCE AND ARTS 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 SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY?
- SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,615 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($109,550). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $317,615 in grants to SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $109,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 20 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