New Hampshire · Nonprofit
THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (New Hampshire) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,363 to it, the largest being THE NH FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION ($335,309). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $341k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What The Founders Academy Public Charter School does
Mission
The founders academy is a public chartered school encompassing grades 5 -12 that is free and open to all new hampshire students. The academy develops leaders who understand and apply the lessons of the past, demonstrate exceptional character and lead by example. The academy recognizes the importance of balance in the development of the whole person, and respects each student's journey.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional: open-enrollment chartered public school for grades 5 through 12, focusing on a classical education including studies in history, leadership, ethics, debate, business and finance, classical literature as well as the standard high school curriculum of math, science, languages and the arts.
$3,022,125 spent$4,159,454 earned by the program97% of program spendingStudent activities: there is a wide variety of activities available to the founder's academy students, including, but not limited to: drama, band and chorus, dance, and the first lego league which is a robotics program.
$77,989 spent$122,160 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,100,114.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $2.2M (+85%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 29% · 2023 11% · 2024 8% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’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. 2 of the last 9 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
Robert Best
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $301k → $37k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $62k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Founders Academy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’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 FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Founders Academy Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (New Hampshire) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,363 to it, the largest being THE NH FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION ($335,309). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $341,363 in grants to THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- THE NH FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION is the largest funder on record, with $335,309 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 3 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