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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.

$9.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$32M
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $376k
  • $250k+16 grants · $8.6M
$390,411
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GATEWAY CHARTER SCHOOL: $525k → 10%BRILLA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $657k → 28%PASSAIC ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $718k → 7%MIDDLESEX COUNTY STEM CHARTER SCHOOL: $492k → 8%QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $601k → 10%THRIVE CHARTER SCHOOL CSP: $452k → 11%OCEAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $630k → 11%CAMDEN'S PROMISE CHARTER SCHOOL: $690k → 12%BELOVED COMMUNITY CHARTER: $661k → 14%LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $543k → 16%BRILLA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $450k → 28%BERGEN ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $454k → 7%MIDDLESEX COUNTY STEM CHARTER SCHOOL: $371k → 8%QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $491k → 10%ACHIEVERS EARLY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL: $696k → 11%CAMDEN'S PROMISE CHARTER SCHOOL: $578k → 12%LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $504k → 16%HOPE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $535k → 6%PASSAIC ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $419k → 7%QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $382k → 10%ACHIEVERS EARLY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL: $357k → 11%PATERSON ARTS & SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $703k → 12%LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $379k → 16%HOPE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $379k → 6%BERGEN ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $413k → 7%CRESTHAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $894k → 10%PHILIP'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSON: $611k → 12%HATIKVAH INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $537k → 8%BARACK OBAMA GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL: $390k → 10%PAUL ROBESON CHARTER SCHOOL: $520k → 11%PHILIP'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSON: $520k → 12%HATIKVAH INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $459k → 8%CRESTHAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $348k → 10%PHILIP'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSON: $335k → 12%PAUL ROBESON CHARTER SCHOOL: $373k → 11%PHILIP'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEWARK: $828k → 16%COLLEGE ACHIEVE PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL: $861k → 6%PHILIP'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEWARK: $391k → 16%COLLEGE ACHIEVE GREATER ASBURY PARK CHARTER SCHOOL: $715k → 6%COLLEGE ACHIEVE CENTRAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $425k → 10%COLLEGE ACHIEVE GREATER ASBURY PARK CHARTER SCHOOL: $587k → 6%FOUNDATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $729k → 11%PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: $1.1M → 12%EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY: $941k → 14%COLLEGE ACHIEVE PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL: $385k → 6%PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: $988k → 12%KINDLE EDUCATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $470k → 14%KINDLE EDUCATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $340k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 25 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
27

Total granted

$30M
$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+35%

Still filing today

76%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    COLLEGE ACHIEVE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +81%
  • PC
    PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +49%
  • LC
    LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PC
    PATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL ROUNDTABLE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -44% · 33% of their budget
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +30%
  • HC
    HOBOKEN CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +20%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ethical Community Charter School

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.

Education
2
Discovery Charter School

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…

Education
3
Greater Brunswick Charter School

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…

Education
4
Village Charter School

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…

Education
5
University Academy Charter High School

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…

Education
6
Great Oaks 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…

Education
7
Creativity Colaboratory Charter School a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

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

Education
8
Thomas Edison Energysmart Charter School

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…

Education
9
The Gray Charter School

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.

Education
10
Riverbank Charter School of Excellence

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…

Education
11
Multicultural Academy Charter School

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…

Education
12
Soaring Heights Charter School

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jersey City Global Charter School; 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.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
39/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLEGE ACHIEVE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $3,048,097 · EducationCOLLEGE ACHIEVE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INCPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $2,395,042 · EducationPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYLINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,698,363 · EducationLINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLPHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,528,303 · EducationPHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INCCRESTHAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLINC: $1,505,000 · EducationCRESTHAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLINCQUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,472,968 · EducationQUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLPHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSON: $1,465,732 · EducationPHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSONPASSAIC ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,250,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,214,004 · EducationKINDLE EDUCATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,130,236 · EducationBELOVED COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,007,000 · EducationHATIKVAH INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,005,000 · EducationBERGEN ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · EducationEMPOWERMENT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $941,295 · EducationMIDDLESEX COUNTY STEM CHARTER SCHOOL: $865,408 · Education+31 more: $3,465,914 · Education+31 moreCAMDENS PROMISE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,520,861 · OtherCAMDENS PROMISE CHARTER …OCEAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,476,637 · OtherOCEAN ACADEMY CHARTER SC…BRILLA COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,187,647 · OtherBRILLA COLLEGE PREPARATO…ACHIEVERS EARLY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,109,778 · OtherACHIEVERS EARLY COLLEGE …PAUL ROBESON CHARTER SCHOOL: $893,302 · OtherPAUL ROBESON CHARTER SCH…COLLEGE ACHIEVE CENTRAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $563,029 · OtherCOLLEGE ACHIEVE CENTRAL …ACHIEVERS EARLY COLLEGE PREPA: $240,700 · Other+4 more: $20,000 · OtherPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL ROUNDTABLE INC: $30,000 · Civil Rights
Education$24,992,362Other$7,011,954Civil Rights$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLEGE ACHIEVE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $3,048,097 over 5y, 12% of budgetPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $2,395,042 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetLINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,698,363 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetPHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,528,303 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCRESTHAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLINC: $1,505,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetOCEAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,476,637 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetQUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,472,968 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetPHILIPS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSON: $1,465,732 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetPASSAIC ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,250,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,214,004 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetKINDLE EDUCATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,130,236 over 3y, 89% of budgetBELOVED COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,007,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetHATIKVAH INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,005,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetBERGEN ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetEMPOWERMENT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $941,295 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMIDDLESEX COUNTY STEM CHARTER SCHOOL: $865,408 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetPATERSON ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL: $802,573 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFOUNDATION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $742,787 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetGATEWAY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $695,160 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHRIVE CHARTER SCHOOL A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $451,602 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBARACK OBAMA GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL: $390,411 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNJ PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ACTION FUND INC: $78,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCLASSICAL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF CLIFTON INC: $60,754 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetROSEVILLE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $48,831 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPATERSON CHARTER SCHOOL ROUNDTABLE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL OF PATERSON: $17,095 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJERSEY CITY GLOBAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $13,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOBOKEN CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELYSIAN CHARTER SCHOOL OF HOBOKEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM PREP CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEARNING COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEANECK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAP ACADEMY UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRENTON STEM-TO-CIVICS CHARTER SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDR LENA EDWARDS ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOBOKEN DUAL LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILEARN SCHOOLS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $6,576 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY CHARTER SCHOOL NETWORK: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN DOOR CHARTER SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Newark Charter School Fund IncNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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