California · Nonprofit
AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC
AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $743,603 to it, the largest being CORE CHARTER SCHOOLS ($743,603). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $744k
- Net assets
- $-109814
What Aerostem Academy Inc does
Mission
Aerostem academy prepares students of today for the growing college and career opportunities of tomorrow. By exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("stem") through the lens of aerospace, students gain the knowledge... (continued on schedule o)and skills necessary to contribute to a dynamic, technology-intensive economy. Aerostem academy creates a culture of character and collaboration in close partnership with college and professional communities. The educational program encourages imagination, incorporates experiential learning, and provides opportunities to engineer solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of a public charter high school. Aerostem academy provides an educational model for junior high and high school students who value learning and want to prepare for their future career now. The aerostem academy program pursues its objective: to introduce students to the critical need for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) knowledge by integrating stem skills into all subject areas. As a result, students attach valuable, personal meaning to their learning in the growing technological economy of the 21st century.
$1,370,678 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,370,678.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $762k to $1.2M (+60%).
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: 2019 99% · 2020 84% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% · 2024 93% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Joseph Clark
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250k → $92k.
From the IRS filings of AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from California funders.
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
AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC: 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 AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC?
- AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $743,603 to it, the largest being CORE CHARTER SCHOOLS ($743,603). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $743,603 in grants to AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC?
- CORE CHARTER SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $743,603 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AEROSTEM ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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