Georgia · Nonprofit
THE SAE SCHOOL INC
THE SAE SCHOOL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,080 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $288k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What The Sae School Inc does
Mission
The school's mission is to discover, nurture, and protect each child's individual life and academic journey. We believe that students should have a fun, safe and rigorous educational experience that prepares them to be the leaders, innovators, and influencers of their generation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The sae school is an independent school founded in 2011 by a group of local parents and educators to create a school that focuses on the needs of the individual student through a project based learning instructional model. Opening its doors on august 13th, 2013 with 118 students in preschool through eighth grade and grew through the years to 400. The school received accreditation through the georgia accrediting commission effective as of july 2013. There is tremendous diversity represented within the student body: 85% african american / 5% caucasian / 5% multi-ethnic / 5% hispanic. Additionally, the school serves a diverse community of learners through its inclusion education program. Students with diagnosed learning differences are fully included with additional support designed on a student by student basis to ensure that each child receives and academic experience conducive to their learning style. Fundraising efforts engaged students, parents and supporting community members to create additional support including scholarships, supplies for special events, field trip funding and other program enhancements.
$4,539,992 spentof which $338,978 as grants$4,996,550 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,539,992.
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 $7.7M to $9.5M (+23%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of THE SAE SCHOOL 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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Desmond Bobbett
CEO
Board chair
Maurice Pritchett
Chair of board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $73k → $64k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 SAE SCHOOL 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 SAE SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 SAE SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 45% — 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
50% of THE SAE SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 20% 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
51% of THE SAE SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 SAE SCHOOL INC's revenue grew 53% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE SAE SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE SAE SCHOOL INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SAE SCHOOL INC: 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 SAE SCHOOL INC?
- THE SAE SCHOOL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,080 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SAE SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $288,080 in grants to THE SAE SCHOOL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SAE SCHOOL INC?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SAE SCHOOL 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 10 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