North Carolina · Nonprofit
UNION ACADEMY
UNION ACADEMY (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,484 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ($16,798). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $17M
What Union Academy does
Mission
Union Academy (ua) is a collaborative educational community that engages families and the broader community in the education and development of the whole child. Ua fosters learning that integrates high expectations for academic achievement with strong standards for character development within a structured environment. This environment is designed and supported by a motivated and well-resourced professional faculty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Union Academy is a public school operated by a non-profit corporation, serving approximately 2,187 students in the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025.
$16,843,457 spent$1,731,569 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,843,457.
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 $30M to $32M (+7%).
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 91% · 2018 89% · 2019 90% · 2020 93% · 2021 99% · 2022 93% · 2023 93% · 2024 90% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of UNION ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Board chair
Nolan Mcbride
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $4k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 UNION 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
UNION ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 UNION ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 87% · 2021 84% · 2022 56% · 2023 68% — 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
88% of UNION ACADEMY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UNION 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 UNION 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Union Academy Foundation · exempt
- Union Academy Private Pre-Kindergarten · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNION 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 UNION ACADEMY?
- UNION ACADEMY (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,484 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ($16,798). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNION ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $36,484 in grants to UNION ACADEMY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION ACADEMY?
- NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 7 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