Minnesota · Nonprofit
St Croix Preparatory Academy
St Croix Preparatory Academy (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,077 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF EDUCATION ($140,016). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $438k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What St Croix Preparatory Academy does
Mission
SCPA is a public school serving approximately 1,191 students in grades K-12 in fiscal year 7/1/2024-6/30/2025. Student retention over a ten year period remains an average of 96% (because the school is a school of parent choice, the Board interpolates a parent satisfaction rate of 96% as well); Faculty retention, over a five year period, averages over 88%; Average State standardized test scores are 16-22% higher than the resident district.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
SCPA is a public school serving approximately 1,191 students in grades K-12 in fiscal year 7/1/2024-6/30/2025. Student retention over a ten year period remains an average of 96% (because the school is a school of parent choice, the Board interpolates a parent satisfaction rate of 96% as well); Faculty retention, over a five year period, averages over 88%; Average State standardized test scores are 16-22% higher than the resident district.
$14,264,354 spent$765,737 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,264,354.
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 2017 to 2018, from $19M to $17M (−12%).
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 91% · 2018 91% · 2019 91% · 2020 93% · 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 85% · 2024 93% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of St Croix Preparatory Academy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $77k → $58k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 St Croix Preparatory 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.
How concentrated its funding is
St Croix Preparatory Academy has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 St Croix Preparatory Academy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 89% · 2019 53% · 2020 36% · 2021 32% · 2022 40% · 2023 33% — 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
36% of St Croix Preparatory Academy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
99% of St Croix Preparatory 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. $172k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
St Croix Preparatory Academy is better cushioned than half 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 St Croix Preparatory 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of St Croix Preparatory Academy · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds St Croix Preparatory Academy?
- St Croix Preparatory Academy (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,077 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF EDUCATION ($140,016). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St Croix Preparatory Academy have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $438,077 in grants to St Croix Preparatory Academy, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Croix Preparatory Academy?
- FRIENDS OF EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,016 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Croix Preparatory 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing