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The Scholarship Academy Inc

The Scholarship Academy Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,940,042 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($483,851). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$717k
11/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What The Scholarship Academy Inc does

Mission

The Scholarship Academy, Inc. (the Academy), founded in 2006, is a private District of Columbia nonprofit corporation dedicated to helping lowincome students secure resources to pursue higher education opportunities with minimum debt to create healthier financial aid cultures. The Academy offers a 16-module course to high schools and youth-serving organizations to support students with navigating the financial aid process.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Program activities administered by the Academy include: Train the Trainer Sessions: These half-day sessions provide college counselors with an opportunity to streamline the financial aid process for low-income students. Financial Aid Outreach: The Academy hosts a series of innovative financial aid outreach events to introduce students to local, state, and national scholarship resources. Virtual Scholarship Center Access: The Academy has built a scholarship planning platform that it customizes with local/statebased aid opportunities for low-income students. The Academy is also registered in the State of Georgia, where it maintains its corporate office.

    $912,005 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $912,005.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($540k) Expenses 100 ($420k) Net assets 100 ($276k)2022 Revenue 176 ($951k) Expenses 144 ($604k) Net assets 224 ($619k)2023 Revenue 173 ($935k) Expenses 237 ($998k) Net assets 124 ($342k)2024 Revenue 289 ($1.6M) Expenses 242 ($1.0M) Net assets 322 ($889k)2025 Revenue 203 ($1.1M) Expenses 253 ($1.1M) Net assets 260 ($717k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (203)Expenses (253)Net assets (260)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $761k to $1.2M (+63%).

$382k
$628k
$761k
$1.2M
$972k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 38% · 2022 41% · 2023 38% · 2024 22% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of The Scholarship Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$120k
’21
$347k
’22
−$62k
’23
$543k
’24
$36k
’25
7.0
months of
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

Jessica Johnson

Executive Director

Board chair

Marc Hardy

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed88998
Joined·+2+3+0+0
No longer listed·2201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $468k.

5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Scholarship Academy 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 Scholarship Academy Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

53% 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 Scholarship Academy Inc.

25%
largest funder
43%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 87% · 2019 57% · 2020 46% · 2021 30% · 2022 51% · 2023 21% — 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

33% of The Scholarship Academy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

70% of The Scholarship Academy Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

WA
MN
NY
MA
CA
MD
GA
FL

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Scholarship Academy Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve7.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like The Scholarship Academy 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Scholarship Academy Inc?
The Scholarship Academy Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,940,042 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($483,851). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Scholarship Academy Inc have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,940,042 in grants to The Scholarship Academy Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Scholarship Academy Inc?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $483,851 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Scholarship Academy 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 25 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