Pennsylvania · Public charity
Mastery Charter Schools Foundation
To develop and provide financial support for the mastery network of charter schools.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $29,594
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,219,193
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $118M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Mastery Charter Schools Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $743k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $2.2M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $2.2M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $2.7M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $2.4M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $4.0M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mastery Charter High School | $16,205,027 | 9 | 9% |
| Mastery Charter School - Gratz Campus | $1,698,756 | 8 | 2% |
| Mastery Charter School John Wister Campus | $1,595,250 | 7 | 11% |
| Frederick Douglass Mastery Charter School | $804,208 | 8 | 6% |
| Mastery Schools of Camden Inc | $396,963 | 9 | 0% |
| Mastery Charter School Pastorius - Richardson Elementary | $358,981 | 5 | 3% |
| Mastery Charter School - Pickett Campus | $357,735 | 8 | 1% |
| Mastery Charter School-Shoemaker Campus | $275,019 | 6 | 2% |
| Mastery Charter School - Smedley Elementary | $269,115 | 9 | 0% |
| Mastery Charter School - Thomas Campus | $241,329 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($266k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mastery Charter Schools Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maurice Romy Fdn Dima-Br Wdp · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Mastery Charter Schools Foundation with peer funders
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About Mastery Charter Schools Foundation
- How much does Mastery Charter Schools Foundation give?
- Mastery Charter Schools Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $1,574,027, out of $2,089,112 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mastery Charter Schools Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Mastery Charter Schools Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mastery Charter High School ($16M), Mastery Charter School - Gratz Campus ($1.7M), Mastery Charter School John Wister Campus ($1.6M).
- Does Mastery Charter Schools Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mastery Charter Schools Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maurice Romy Fdn Dima-Br Wdp, The Patricia Kind Family Foundation, Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools.
- Where is Mastery Charter Schools Foundation based?
- Mastery Charter Schools Foundation is based in PA.
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