Virginia · Nonprofit
THE NORFOLK ACADEMY
THE NORFOLK ACADEMY (Virginia) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,298,537 to it, the largest being SHEARWATER FOUNDATION INC ($4,320,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $156M
What The Norfolk Academy does
Mission
The Norfolk Academy is a college preparatory co-educational day school that strives to assist its students to develop maturity of body, mind, and character. We hope to engender an awareness and appreciation of intellectual, aesthetic, and moral excellence in a setting that offers well-developed programs, not only in the academic disciplines, but also in fine arts and athletics. We aim to prepare students to become useful and responsible citizens of a democracy. We strive to make them aware of their roles in creating a just society. We are committed to the spiritual and ethical values of the judeo-christian heritage and envision that these will become a part of the being of each memeber of The Norfolk Academy community. Norfolk academy seeks to offer a coordinated program for students, building and expanding on knowledge and experience from grades one through twelve, encouraging responsible participation in a variety of school activities, providing opportunities for leadership training
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer school & other sponsored programs
$934,984 spent$800,943 earned by the program3% of program spendingInstructional & general programs for students grades 1-12
$32,039,973 spent$28,379,298 earned by the program97% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,974,957.
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 $147M to $174M (+18%).
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.
11% of THE NORFOLK ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $3.1M → $1.5M.
18 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 NORFOLK ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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 NORFOLK ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% 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 NORFOLK ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 72% · 2019 45% · 2020 30% · 2021 28% · 2022 43% · 2023 34% — 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
61% of THE NORFOLK ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
92% of THE NORFOLK ACADEMY's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 NORFOLK ACADEMY is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE NORFOLK ACADEMY
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NORFOLK 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 THE NORFOLK ACADEMY?
- THE NORFOLK ACADEMY (Virginia) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,298,537 to it, the largest being SHEARWATER FOUNDATION INC ($4,320,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NORFOLK ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $16,298,537 in grants to THE NORFOLK ACADEMY, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NORFOLK ACADEMY?
- SHEARWATER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NORFOLK ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 68 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