· Public charity
New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation
To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $376k
- $250k+16 grants · $8.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | $1,112,760 |
| EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY | $941,295 |
| FOUNDATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $729,158 |
| PATERSON ARTS & SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL | $702,806 |
| HOPE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $535,277 |
| GATEWAY CHARTER SCHOOL | $525,146 |
| PAUL ROBESON CHARTER SCHOOL | $520,106 |
| LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $503,690 |
| THRIVE CHARTER SCHOOL CSP | $451,602 |
| BRILLA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS | $450,494 |
| COLLEGE ACHIEVE CENTRAL CHARTER SCHOOL | $424,526 |
| BARACK OBAMA GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL | $390,411 |
| MIDDLESEX COUNTY STEM CHARTER SCHOOL | $370,508 |
| ACHIEVERS EARLY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL | $357,342 |
| KINDLE EDUCATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $320,212 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CACOLLEGE ACHIEVE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +81%
- PCPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY5× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +49%
- LCLINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +10%
Funded once
- PCPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL ROUNDTABLE INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -44% · 33% of their budget
- CCCOMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +30%
- CJCENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The charter school is a new jersey public school overseen by the new jersey department of education. the charter school offers an academic program that encourages analytical thinking and creativity to help children.
The mission of the discovery charter school is to teach students how to communicate powerfully and effectively, to think critically, and to foster a well rounded education that teaches students not only to succeed on examinations but in…
The mission of the charter school is to provide students with an education of the highest standards that incorporate their individual interests and learning styles, and nurtures their intelectual, social, emotional and physical well-being…
The village charter school (vcs) is a k-8 public charter school serving approximately 360 students in the trenton/ewing area of mercer county, new jersey. the village charter school focuses on academic and leadership skills as a means to…
The mission of university academy charter high school is based upon the philosophy that everyone can make a contribution and that individuals working together can make an impacting difference. it is also the mission of the charter school…
The charter school is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of operating and maintaining a public school under a charter granted by the state of new jersey. the charter promotes educational reform through innovation. the…
To operate and maintain a public school under a charter granted by the state of new jersey which promotes comprehensive educational reform by infusing innovation into the public education system
The mission of the Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School is to provide academic and social challenges and opportunities to students, instilling the skills and knowledge that they will need to succeed in their lives. The school aims to…
The charter schools mission is to provide its diverse student body the best possible education by focusing on the fundamental academic disciplines in an atmosphere that affirms academic.
The Mission of Riverbank Charter School of Excellence is to provide students with opportunities to develop their intellectual, emotional, and social potential through the implementation of a dynamic curriculum that fosters learning through…
It is the mission of the multicultural academy charter school to educate the whole child by providing a safe environment where students can learn and teachers can instruct while emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in the…
Soaring Heights Charter Schools mission is to ensure that all students secure the academic knowledge and skills to prepare them further education and to instill in them the core values of caring, respect, responsibility and honesty
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jersey City Global Charter School and the most unlike its peers is Cumberland County Charter School Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COLLEGE ACHIEVE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CRESTHAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSON ↗
- Who funds PASSAIC ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRILLA COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KINDLE EDUCATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BELOVED COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HATIKVAH INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BERGEN ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX COUNTY STEM CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PATERSON ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THRIVE CHARTER SCHOOL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BARACK OBAMA GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NJ PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF CLIFTON INC ↗
- Who funds ROSEVILLE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL ROUNDTABLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSON ↗
- Who funds JERSEY CITY GLOBAL CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOBOKEN CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELYSIAN CHARTER SCHOOL OF HOBOKEN ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Newark Charter School Fund Inc · Camden Education Fund Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Compass Academy Charter School — 13% of income from government
- Link Community Charter School — 11% of income from government
- Ocean Academy Charter School — 10% of income from government
- Hope Academy Charter School — 10% of income from government
- Pride Academy Charter School — 10% of income from government
- Unity Charter School — 6% of income from government
- Hoboken Charter School — 6% of income from government
- Ilearn Schools Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.