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ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,100 to it, the largest being Center for Educational Innovation Inc ($36,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Academy for Urban Leadership Charter High School does
Mission
The academy for urban leadership charter school (the "charter school") provides a full range of educational services for grades 7 through 12. These services include a regular as well as special education and basic skills instruction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Major initiatives for the 2024-2025 school year continued to center on health and educational challenges initially brought forth due to the covid-19 pandemic. The following were areas of focus for operational activities:increased district technological capacities in all areas (hardware/software) for remote learning; developed/implemented reopening plan inclusive of ppe, signage, cleansing supplies/equipment; designed/implemented leadership mentoring and intership program per school charter; continued search and goal setting for increasing student stability; continued expansion of staff and to accomodate program growth and student needs; continued providing professional development.
$6,612,111 spent$8,496,138 earned by the program87% of program spendingThe charter school implemented the every student succeeds act (essa) and idea program. These programs were enacted by congress to reauthorized the elementary and secondary act with major focus on providing all children with fair, equal and significant opportunity to have a high quality education through enrichment activities.
$736,816 spent$5,462 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe charter school provided nutritionally balanced, low cost or free meals to student each school day through its breakfast and lunch programs. The programs are federally and state assisted.
$211,059 spent$7,082 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,559,986.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.0M to $8.9M (+47%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2018 23% · 2019 23% · 2020 27% · 2021 34% · 2022 102% · 2023 30% · 2024 34% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $37k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 71% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$200k
- Department of Agriculture$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL?
- ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,100 to it, the largest being Center for Educational Innovation Inc ($36,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,100 in grants to ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL.
- Who is the largest funder of ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL?
- Center for Educational Innovation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $36,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACADEMY FOR URBAN LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing