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TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY

TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($156,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.7M
Revenue FY2025
7
Funders on record
$233k
Grants received
$7.4M
Net assets
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve10.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 100 ($4.4M) Expenses 110 ($3.8M) Net assets 127 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 107 ($4.7M) Expenses 117 ($4.0M) Net assets 157 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 114 ($5.0M) Expenses 122 ($4.2M) Net assets 191 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 139 ($6.0M) Expenses 126 ($4.3M) Net assets 272 ($5.7M)2022 Revenue 135 ($5.8M) Expenses 154 ($5.3M) Net assets 298 ($6.3M)2023 Revenue 146 ($6.3M) Expenses 156 ($5.4M) Net assets 343 ($7.2M)2024 Revenue 136 ($5.9M) Expenses 163 ($5.6M) Net assets 356 ($7.5M)2025 Revenue 133 ($5.7M) Expenses 171 ($5.9M) Net assets 351 ($7.4M)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (171)Net assets (351)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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 13% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$905k
17
$566k
18
$645k
19
$777k
20
$1.7M
21
$543k
22
$963k
23
$275k
24
$115k
25
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $29k → $20k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)86% 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 TEMPE 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

TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY.

67%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 70% · 2019 55% · 2020 79% · 2021 99% · 2022 71% · 2023 93%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.

Where its funders are

86% of TEMPE PREPARATORY 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 $33k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states.

NY
NC

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

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19
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23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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 TEMPE 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

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 17%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Tempe Preparatory Academy Fdtn · exempt
  • Tempe Preparatory Academies · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEMPE 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 TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($156,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $233,000 in grants to TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEMPE PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $156,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEMPE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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