New Jersey · Nonprofit
ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,020 to it, the largest being GEM FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $88k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Achieve Community Charter School does
Mission
Achieve Community Charter School builds innovations who graduate college ready to solve the world's next set of challenges.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
The charter school provides a full range of educational services appropriate to grade levels k through 8. These include both regular and special education programs. As of june 30, 2023, the charter school's final head count was 441 students. The major initiatives are building the curriculum for rigorous literacy and math instruction through the adoption a new curriculums. Teachers and leaders will be trained in summer institute and on bi-weekly professional development. The charter school also adopted a new guided reading framework in kindergarten to second grade and close reading in third grade. Teachers and leaders were professionally developed to implement the curriculum. Social emotional learning and support was developed through the addition of a vice principal of culture as well as an associate dean. These two positions provided direct support to teachers and administrators in meeting the needs of our most struggling students.
$4,420,651 spent$7,530,561 earned by the program66% of program spendingThe charter school implemented the every student succeeds act (essa) and idea programs. These programs were enacted by congress to preauthorize the elementary and secondary education act with major focus on providing all children with fair, equal and significant opportunity to have a high quality education through enrichment activities. In addition, the charter school also implemented requirements of the esser, arp and other covid-19 related activities to retain and maintain school operations during the covid-19 pandemic.
$2,251,726 spent34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,672,377.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.4M to $6.5M (+367%).
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: 2018 20% · 2019 23% · 2020 12% · 2021 17% · 2022 32% · 2023 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Dominique Lee
CEO
Board chair
Ronald Augustin
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $62k → $21k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest South Ward Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER 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
ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 81% · 2019 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,812 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2023
Organizations like ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,020 to it, the largest being GEM FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $88,020 in grants to ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
- Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- GEM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACHIEVE COMMUNITY CHARTER 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 4 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