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New York City Center for Charter School Excellence

The new york city charter school center is committed to ensuring all of nyc's children have equitable access to a high quality public school education. Charter schools are one of the means through which to achieve that goal. We advocate for laws and policies that enable high quality schooling, foster new school development and growth,…

$780k
Granted FY2020
33
Grants FY2020
33
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$24,226
Largest grant, FY2020
$32,000
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$21M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of New York City Center for Charter School Excellence by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Explore Schools Inc$32,00011%
Ember Charter School for Mindful Educationinnovation & Transformation$30,00010%
Cardinal McCloskey Community Charter School$30,00011%
Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School$30,00010%
Urban Dove Team Charter School IV$30,00011%
Emblaze Academy Charter School$30,00011%
Mott Haven Academy Charter School$30,00010%
Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science$30,00011%
Renaissance Charter School$30,00010%
Brooklyn Scholars Charter School$30,00010%
Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School$30,00010%
New York Center for Autism Charter School$30,0001n/a
Great Oaks Kathleen Sherry Charter School$28,50010%
New York City Charter School of the Arts$27,00010%
Leep Dual Language Academy Charter School$26,94011%
Urban Dove Team Charter School III$26,00010%
Hellenic Classical Charter Schools - Staten Island$24,22611%
Global Community Charter School$22,50010%
Legacy College Preparatory Charter School$22,05510%
Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem Inc$22,00011%
Storefront Academy Charter School$21,90010%
Brooklyn Charter School$20,00010%
Cultural Arts Academy Charter School at Spring Creek$20,00010%
Bold Charter School$20,00011%
Harbor Science and Arts Charter School$20,00010%
Ivy Hill Preparatory Charter School$17,50011%
South Bronx Community Charter High School$16,95010%
Key Collegiate Charter School$16,00010%
Compass Charter School$16,00010%
Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools$15,00010%
Merrick Academy Queens Public Charter School$14,55410%
Creo College Preparatory Charter School$12,99510%
Elm Community Charter School$7,80010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget New York City Center for Charter School Excellence supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetExplore Schools Inc: $32,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEmber Charter School for Mindful Educationinnovation & Transformation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCardinal McCloskey Community Charter School: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBrooklyn Excelsior Charter School: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Dove Team Charter School IV: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEmblaze Academy Charter School: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMott Haven Academy Charter School: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRenaissance Charter School: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBrooklyn Scholars Charter School: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHarlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreat Oaks Kathleen Sherry Charter School: $28,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew York City Charter School of the Arts: $27,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLeep Dual Language Academy Charter School: $26,940 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUrban Dove Team Charter School III: $26,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHellenic Classical Charter Schools - Staten Island: $24,226 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGlobal Community Charter School: $22,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLegacy College Preparatory Charter School: $22,055 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem Inc: $22,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStorefront Academy Charter School: $21,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBrooklyn Charter School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCultural Arts Academy Charter School at Spring Creek: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBold Charter School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHarbor Science and Arts Charter School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIvy Hill Preparatory Charter School: $17,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSouth Bronx Community Charter High School: $16,950 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKey Collegiate Charter School: $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCompass Charter School: $16,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBrilla College Preparatory Charter Schools: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerrick Academy Queens Public Charter School: $14,554 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCreo College Preparatory Charter School: $12,995 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetElm Community Charter School: $7,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

50can IncDC57.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 50can Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Heckscher Foundation for Children · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About New York City Center for Charter School Excellence

How much does New York City Center for Charter School Excellence give?
New York City Center for Charter School Excellence reported 33 grants totaling $779,920 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does New York City Center for Charter School Excellence fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (92%), Health (4%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are New York City Center for Charter School Excellence's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Explore Schools Inc ($32k), Ember Charter School for Mindful Educationinnovation & Transformation ($30k), Cardinal McCloskey Community Charter School ($30k).
Which funders back the same organizations as New York City Center for Charter School Excellence?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include 50can Inc, Walton Family Foundation Inc, The Heckscher Foundation for Children.
Where is New York City Center for Charter School Excellence based?
New York City Center for Charter School Excellence is based in NY.

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 33 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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