Source: IRS Form 990 Record — The Other Side Academy

Summary

Form 990 filing history of Other Side Academy (EIN 47-4495796), Salt Lake City, as returned by ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer on 2026-08-11. NTEE category I40 (rehabilitation services for offenders). IRS subsection code 3 with a ruling date of December 2015.

This is the first primary-tier source in the Other Side Academy cluster, and it settles three things the rest of the cluster could only report as self-description: the organization's registry identity, its 501(c)(3) status, and its Salt Lake City street address. It also supplies the one thing no self-reported page can — an audited-scale revenue mix against which the organization's self-sufficiency claim can be measured.

Useful Claims

• EIN 47-4495796, "Other Side Academy," 661 E 100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84102-1103. This independently corroborates the Armstrong Mansion address that the organization's own uncaptured How To Apply page states.
• 501(c)(3) confirmed by IRS subsection code 3, ruling date 2015-12.
• Revenue, total assets, and program-service revenue grew substantially across the filing history. The exact annual values remain available in the raw capture and underlying returns.
• Program-service revenue from the training businesses is substantial, while contributions and grants remain the larger revenue source in the filing summarized here.
• A separate "The Other Side Academy-peoria" (EIN 47-2341250, East Peoria, IL) appears in the same registry, evidence that the model has been replicated under the name outside Utah.

Verbatim

This page records structured fields from ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer API rather than prose. The figures above are the API's own field values (totrevenue, totfuncexpns, totassetsend, totprgmrevnue, totcntrbgfts, subsection_code, ruling_date, address) for EIN 474495796, retrieved 2026-08-11. Class A source: re-derivable by querying the identifier, so no excerpt is carried.

Reliability Notes

Primary tier, with one qualification that matters. ProPublica republishes IRS Form 990 data; it is not the IRS. The authoritative copies are the filings themselves, available as PDFs from the same record and from the IRS. Nothing here has been checked against the PDFs, so these figures are "as the IRS extract reports" rather than "as audited."

The self-sufficiency claim can now be measured, and it is weaker than the organization's phrasing suggests. The Academy's how-it-works page says its student-run businesses cover "most of our program expenses." Against total functional expenses, FY2023 program service revenue is about 48% — short of "most," with contributions supplying more. The caveat is real, though: "program expenses" in the organization's sense may be a narrower base than total functional expenses, which include fundraising and administration. Form 990 Part IX would resolve it by separating program service expenses from the rest. Until then this page records the ratio and does not call the claim false.

The registry does not speak to the Academy's separate assertion that it takes no government money. Form 990 Part VIII distinguishes government grants from other contributions and would settle it. The wiki can capture PDFs as of 2026-08-11, but ProPublica returns HTTP 403 to automated clients for its filing downloads, so reaching the return itself needs another route — most likely the IRS e-file XML.

Related Pages

• The Other Side Academy
• Source: The Other Side Academy — Official Website
• Source: The Other Side Academy — How It Works