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STRATFORD ACADEMY INC

STRATFORD ACADEMY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,183,013 to it, the largest being MF HUTCHINSON JR CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,075,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$15M
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$26M
21/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Stratford Academy Inc does

Mission

Stratford academy is an independent, non-sectarian, college preparatory school for students in pre-kindergarten through grade twelve. Guided by the motto, "freedom for excellence", stratford provides a superior education for students with diverse backgrounds and talents and develops responsible, ethical, life-long learners. In partnership with families, students, and faculty, stratford - provides opportunities for students to develop their individual abilities and skills within the context of a rigorous curriculum. - builds character and integrity by offering students a variety of ethical and cultural perspectives through the curriculum and service to the school and community. - encourages students to engage in a wide range of academic, athletic, fine arts, and service-related activities. - inspires leadership and prepares students for responsible stewardship and citizenship.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides a superior education for students with diverse backgrounds and talents and develops responsible, ethical, life-long learners. In partnership with families, students, and faculty, stratford - provides opportunities for students to develop their individual abilities and skills within the context of a rigorous curriculum. - builds character and integrity by offering students a variety of ethical and cultural perspectives through the curriculum and service to the school and community. - encourages students to engage in a wide range of academic, athletic, fine arts, and service-related activities. - inspires leadership and prepares students for responsible stewardship and citizenship.

    $12,208,994 spent$13,659,810 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,208,994.

02The 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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($20M)2018 Revenue 102 ($12M) Expenses 97 ($12M) Net assets 99 ($20M)2019 Revenue 99 ($12M) Expenses 103 ($13M) Net assets 96 ($19M)2020 Revenue 106 ($13M) Expenses 93 ($12M) Net assets 103 ($21M)2021 Revenue 131 ($16M) Expenses 99 ($12M) Net assets 127 ($25M)2022 Revenue 124 ($15M) Expenses 104 ($13M) Net assets 135 ($27M)2023 Revenue 113 ($14M) Expenses 110 ($14M) Net assets 135 ($27M)2024 Revenue 126 ($15M) Expenses 125 ($16M) Net assets 138 ($28M)2025 Revenue 124 ($15M) Expenses 138 ($17M) Net assets 130 ($26M)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (138)Net assets (130)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $27M to $30M (+11%).

$27M
$26M
$25M
$27M
$30M
$33M
$32M
$32M
$32M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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: 2021 16% · 2022 11% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of STRATFORD ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$313k
’17
$289k
’18
−$736k
’19
$1.3M
’20
$3.6M
’21
$2.0M
’22
$65k
’23
−$314k
’24
−$2.1M
’25
2.1
months of
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.

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Listed222123232223242324
Joined·+2+5+3+3+1+5+3+6
No longer listed·33340445
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $79k → $1.6M.

6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 STRATFORD ACADEMY INC’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

STRATFORD ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

27% 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 STRATFORD ACADEMY INC.

50%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 62% · 2019 88% · 2020 83% · 2021 85% · 2022 86% · 2023 61% — 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

65% of STRATFORD ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

STRATFORD ACADEMY INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 10 states in all.

IL
NY
OR
NJ
DE
NC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

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’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STRATFORD ACADEMY INC's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds STRATFORD ACADEMY INC?
STRATFORD ACADEMY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,183,013 to it, the largest being MF HUTCHINSON JR CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,075,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STRATFORD ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,183,013 in grants to STRATFORD ACADEMY INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STRATFORD ACADEMY INC?
MF HUTCHINSON JR CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STRATFORD ACADEMY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 30 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