Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC
THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,755 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($440,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $862k
- Net assets
- $-6458337
What The Academy at Penguin Hall Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to educate, enlighten, and empower young women to live and to lead exemplary lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Providing educational services to secondary-school aged young women enrolled at its girls' high school. The academy at penguin hall is an inclusive, independent, college prepatory secondary school for young women which is committed to developing the whole person; intellectually, spiritually, physically and creatively. The academy at penguin hall provides a highly individualized, student centered, diverse and challenging educational experience. Every programmatic decision is based on current research and experience about how girls learn, develop and thrive. Our curriculum is highly integrated and steeped in the experiential so that girls develop the confidence to become drivers of their own learning. This approach enables comprehensive study through the integratin of meaningful student research, collaboration, community partners, and life-changing service learning. An interdisciplinary approach to learning invigorates the educational environement, energizes the curriculum with a real-world relevance, and sparks students' desire to explore, investigate and understand the world. The academy's approach prepares students not only for college but life beyond academic walls. Serving…
$4,061,543 spentof which $609,050 as grants$5,814,227 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,061,543.
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 2020 to 2021, from $17M to $21M (+25%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
George Balich
Chair, Trustee
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL 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
THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 75% · 2023 65% — 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
29% of THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 45% 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
98% of THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $842k 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
THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC?
- THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,755 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($440,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $861,755 in grants to THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ACADEMY AT PENGUIN HALL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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