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Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc

Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,734 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$27M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$6.5M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc does

Mission

Operation of two public charter schools.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operated two charter schools in Charlotte, NC serving approximately 1,857 students for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025.

    $18,426,779 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,426,779.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($412k)2018 Revenue 131 ($5.5M) Expenses 138 ($5.2M) Net assets 173 ($711k)2019 Revenue 174 ($7.3M) Expenses 195 ($7.3M) Net assets 155 ($641k)2020 Revenue 292 ($12M) Expenses 309 ($12M) Net assets 296 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 474 ($20M) Expenses 455 ($17M) Net assets 946 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 542 ($23M) Expenses 566 ($21M) Net assets 1269 ($5.2M)2023 Revenue 577 ($24M) Expenses 632 ($24M) Net assets 1349 ($5.6M)2024 Revenue 616 ($26M) Expenses 663 ($25M) Net assets 1543 ($6.4M)2025 Revenue 649 ($27M) Expenses 696 ($26M) Net assets 1582 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (649)Expenses (696)Net assets (1582)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.7M to $25M (+1415%).

$1.6M
$1.7M
$25M
$48M
$50M
$51M
$51M
$51M
$51M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 11% · 2023 8% · 2024 9% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$412k
’17
$299k
’18
−$70k
’19
$577k
’20
$2.7M
’21
$1.3M
’22
$332k
’23
$799k
’24
$911k
’25
5.4
months of
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.

Board chair

Jose Garcia

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+3+0+0+0+0+2+2
No longer listed·02000122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of Alliance Preparatory Schools 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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

87%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

87% of Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

MA
CT
NC

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc?
Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,734 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,734 in grants to Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Alliance Preparatory Schools Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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