Texas · Nonprofit
UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC
UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $837,557 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($642,985). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $838k
- Net assets
- $0
What Upward Hope Academy Inc does
Mission
To aid high school students in escaping the bonds of poverty and hopelessness by providing them with an education that will enable them to become productive citizens. We are an accredited, tuition free, private high school.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We initiated a program for permanent funding and expanded life skills programs. This year we added three new fundraising programs to our agenda: an administrative quest for permanent sustaining funds, offering endowed scholarship chairs to individual, corporate and foundation donors, and compiling a list of traditional major donors from whom we will seek traditional endowment gifts.on the academic and student development side of our mission, we are adding/expanding our program in "life skills", a program which basically teaches all the concepts most of us learned at home or in elementary and high school. Most of our students have never held a job, and as a result we are working closely with galveston college . We have begun five different "life skills" programs along with a successful agricultural/farming program.part of our objective for the culinary arts will be to have our introductory program in place within the next year.
$137,813 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $137,813.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $637k to $394k (−38%).
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.
100% of UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $46k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 UPWARD HOPE 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
UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 75% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 33% — 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 UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Texas 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
UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like UPWARD HOPE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC?
- UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $837,557 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($642,985). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $837,557 in grants to UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC?
- The Moody Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $642,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC 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 2018–2024), 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