# Source: IRS Form 990 Record — The Other Side Academy

**Type:** source
**Status:** Useful
**Confidence:** High
**Source Type:** filing
**URL:** https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/474495796
**Archive:** https://web.archive.org/web/20230112211555/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/474495796
**Archived:** 2023-01-12
**Publisher:** ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (republishing IRS Form 990 data)
**Retrieved:** 2026-08-12
**Raw:** raw/the-other-side-academy-form-990-record/2026-08-11-85f79449dcda.txt
**Updated:** 2026-08-11
**Relates:** cites [The Other Side Academy](the-other-side-academy.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/the-other-side-academy.md · https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/474495796

## 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](the-other-side-academy.md)
- [Source: The Other Side Academy — Official Website](the-other-side-academy-official-website.md)
- [Source: The Other Side Academy — How It Works](the-other-side-academy-how-it-works.md)