Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,243,985 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($207,423). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Thurgood Marshall Academy does
Mission
The mission of Thurgood Marshall Academy is to prepare students to succeed in college and to actively engage in our democratic society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Thurgood Marshall Academy has a single program--education via data-driven instruction and youth-development activities. In the fiscal year ending 6/30/2025, the school served 373 students during the roughly 180-day school year as well as roughly 200 students during summer programming. Historically, the school's students' scores on standardized tests have been above the average for open enrollment high schools in dc. Substantially all graduating seniors were accepted to college.
$12,283,212 spentof which $13,528 as grants$11,929,858 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,283,212.
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 2019 to 2020, from $16M to $18M (+11%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 10% · 2019 7% · 2020 8% · 2021 22% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% · 2024 21% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of THURGOOD MARSHALL 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. 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
Raymond Weeden
Executive director
Board chair
Mark Harrison
Chair of the board of trustees
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $236k → $228k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY’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
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
92% 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 THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 52% · 2019 33% · 2020 44% · 2021 27% · 2022 39% · 2023 57% — 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
62% of THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
79% of THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $570k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THURGOOD MARSHALL 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY?
- THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,243,985 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($207,423). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,243,985 in grants to THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY?
- EDUCATION FORWARD DC is the largest funder on record, with $207,423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 20 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