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SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY

SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,993 to it, the largest being CHILDREN INCORPORATED ($260,493). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$11M
Revenue FY2023
4
Funders on record
$333k
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve17.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,812 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2023

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($9.8M)2018 Revenue 105 ($11M) Expenses 95 ($12M) Net assets 88 ($8.6M)2019 Revenue 94 ($10M) Expenses 88 ($11M) Net assets 77 ($7.5M)2021 Revenue 179 ($19M) Expenses 72 ($9.3M) Net assets 175 ($17M)2022 Revenue 102 ($11M) Expenses 80 ($10M) Net assets 179 ($17M)2023 Revenue 107 ($11M) Expenses 83 ($11M) Net assets 185 ($18M)
201720182019202120222023
Revenue (107)Expenses (83)Net assets (185)Peer revenue range

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
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.4M
17
$1.2M
18
$1.4M
19
$9.7M
21
$408k
22
$586k
23
17
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $28k → $23k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$260k
funders
1
2
3
2
2
1
2
2
2

From the IRS filings of SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY’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

SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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

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 SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY.

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%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

SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states in all.

CO
VA
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Arizona out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY 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 SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,993 to it, the largest being CHILDREN INCORPORATED ($260,493). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $332,993 in grants to SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
CHILDREN INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $260,493 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHONTO GOVERNING BOARD OF EDUCATION DBA SHONTO PREPARATORY ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing