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STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS

STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,994 to it, the largest being Jeremy Trevor Wilcoxen Foundation ($155,288). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$517k
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$331k
Grants received
$227k
Net assets
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($382k) Expenses 100 ($419k) Net assets -71 ($-42258)2018 Revenue 153 ($586k) Expenses 115 ($484k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2019 Revenue 150 ($575k) Expenses 122 ($511k) Net assets 207 ($123k)2020 Revenue 154 ($589k) Expenses 136 ($569k) Net assets 242 ($144k)2021 Revenue 176 ($674k) Expenses 128 ($538k) Net assets 472 ($280k)2022 Revenue 201 ($770k) Expenses 142 ($597k) Net assets 764 ($453k)2023 Revenue 149 ($571k) Expenses 153 ($640k) Net assets 646 ($383k)2024 Revenue 122 ($467k) Expenses 144 ($603k) Net assets 417 ($248k)2025 Revenue 135 ($517k) Expenses 128 ($538k) Net assets 382 ($227k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (128)Net assets (382)

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: 2022 10%. 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.

$37k
17
$102k
18
$64k
19
$21k
20
$136k
21
$173k
22
$70k
23
$136k
24
$21k
25
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $131k.

6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)53% 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 STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS’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

STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS.

47%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 70% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 40% · 2022 81% · 2023 94%growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

53% of STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS'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 $156k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

MA
CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k 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.

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 STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS: 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 STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS?
STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,994 to it, the largest being Jeremy Trevor Wilcoxen Foundation ($155,288). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $330,994 in grants to STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS?
Jeremy Trevor Wilcoxen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $155,288 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STELLAR ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXICS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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