Texas · Nonprofit
Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy
Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,218 to it, the largest being FMH FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $742k
What Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy does
Mission
Through project based learning and design thinking, we will prepare this generation of students to lead our community with 21st century skills. We will provide a learner-centered academic and physical environment that not only meets the needs of all students, but embraces their uniqueness and diversity. We will create globally responsive citizens who are well equiped to improve their communitites through strategic problem solving and collaberation. We are school of the future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
TLA began operations for their first school year ending August 31, 2020. The school year was extremely successful in attracting students and was supported by the community and parents. The school was successful in carrying out their primary mission.
$810,447 spent$699,594 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $810,447.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $674k to $1.4M (+115%).
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: 2023 5% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Dr Lindsey Balderaz
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Transformative Leadership Academy TL 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
Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 93% — 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
100% of Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Transformative Leadership Academy TL 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 Transformative Leadership Academy TL 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 Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy?
- Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,218 to it, the largest being FMH FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $38,218 in grants to Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy?
- FMH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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