Minnesota · Nonprofit
WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,894 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($53,187). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $376k
What Woodbury Leadership Academy does
Mission
The mission of wla is to utilize leadership based programs and strategies grounded in solid research, combined with the demonstrated success of core knowledge curriculum as the basis of a rigorous overall educational program that builds strong skills in math, reading, literature, writing, music, science and technology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Woodbury leadership (wla) is a charter school that served students in grades k-8 during the 2024-25 school year. Wla incorporates the core knowledge sequence and differentiates instruction to meet the needs of all students. Wla has a focus on leadership which is seen through student council, student led assemblies, and core virtues. Wla served 878 students during the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
$10,024,882 spent$79,398 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,024,882.
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 2017 to 2018, from $946k to $3.2M (+241%).
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 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% · 2024 99% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Shelbi Pool
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $11k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 WOODBURY LEADERSHIP 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
WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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
WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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
WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY has grown faster 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 WOODBURY LEADERSHIP 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Wla · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
- WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,894 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($53,187). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $69,894 in grants to WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53,187 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOODBURY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 3 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