Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $813,101 to it, the largest being UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION ($595,083). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $813k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Appletree Early Learning Public Charter School does
Mission
The mission of the charter school is to close the achievement gap before children get to kindergarten by providing three and four-year-old children with the social, emotional, and cognitive foundations that will enable them to succeed in school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The charter school is open to any washington, dc, child in pre-school and pre-kindergarten and admission is free. The charter school currently serves 658 children at eight public charter preschool campuses across the district. In 2020, the charter school successfully concluded its fifteen- year charter review with its authorizer, the dc public charter school board, and received a charter renewal for an additional fifteen years. In 2025, the charter school successfully completed its twenty-year charter review with its authorizer. The charter school utilizes the comprehensive and evidence-based every child ready instructional model that was developed by appletree institute for education innovation with the assistance of an investing in innovation (i3) grant from the us department of education. The model builds language, literacy, and memory skills using regular assessments and data outcomes throughout the school year. Emphasis is placed on student growth, differentiated by an individual students baseline knowledge. The charter schools primary sources of support are local appropriations for charter schools from the district of columbia. The charter school also receives federal…
$20,666,428 spent$20,275,151 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,666,428.
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 2023 to 2024, from $23M to $30M (+32%).
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 7% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 8% · 2021 27% · 2022 14% · 2023 16% · 2024 13% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER 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. 1 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.
Board chair
William J Mccarthy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $193k → $20k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $339k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Appletree Institute for Education Innovation). These are real filings, and they are not money APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 9 funders by total. 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
APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 79% · 2020 70% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
92% of APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL is better cushioned than half 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 APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $830k on record.
- Department of Education$830k
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 APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Appletree Inst for Ed Innovation · exempt
- Eager to Read · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $813,101 to it, the largest being UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION ($595,083). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $813,101 in grants to APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION is the largest funder on record, with $595,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 9 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