Missouri · Nonprofit
ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY
ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO ($926,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $448k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $396k
What St Nicholas Academy does
Mission
The mission of st. Nicholas academy is to partner with under-resourced families to break the cycle of poverty for children through supportive residential care and exemplary education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
St. Nicholas academy is a faith-based, positive place of living and learning. Committed to providing a loving, safe, nuturing environment, st. Nicholas offers a home-like atmosphere where the children are encouraged to grow and reach their fullest potential. Houseparents, who live in the home, provide stability, love, encouragement, and support to each child. They understand that establishing a positive and mutually respestful relationship with each child is the basis for being able to work effectively with him. It is in this relationship that they come to know, understand, appreciate, and value each child as a unique individual with particular strengths, challenges and gifts.
$225,916 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $225,916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $225k to $517k (+130%).
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.
99% of ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $221 → $300k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 NICHOLAS 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 NICHOLAS ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
93% 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 NICHOLAS ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 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
93% of ST NICHOLAS 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 $67k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $937k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 NICHOLAS ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ST NICHOLAS 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST NICHOLAS 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 ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY?
- ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO ($926,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,004,000 in grants to ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO is the largest funder on record, with $926,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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