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ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL

ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,750 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$30M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$6.5M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Aspira Bilingual Cyber Charter School an Aspira Inc of Pennsylvania School does

Mission

We seek to empower our community through advocacy, education and leadership development of our youth. We aim to serve latino and other vulnerable youth in north philadelphia, specifically in the hunting park, kensington, and olney communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

Beginning february 2025, the school insourced and added educational support services and administrative services such as superintendent office, finance and accounting, human resources, student data services, grant management and school compliance services, along with providing these services to antonia pantoja charter school and eugenio maria de hostos charter school.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. To operate a cyber charter school serving children in kindergarten through 12th grade. The school provides instruction in the form of interactive distance learning classrooms, one-to-one tutoring, computer-supported collaborative learning, project-based learning, and instruction tailored to each student's individual education needs. Enrollment approximated 1050 during the year.beginning february 2025, the school insourced and added educational support services and administrative services such as superintendent office, finance and accounting, human resources, student data services, grant management and school compliance services.

    $28,564,152 spent$27,505,667 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $28,564,152.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.8M) Expenses 100 ($5.5M) Net assets -217 ($-1699304)2018 Revenue 125 ($6.0M) Expenses 90 ($4.9M) Net assets -84 ($-654464)2019 Revenue 185 ($8.9M) Expenses 153 ($8.4M) Net assets -14 ($-110382)2020 Revenue 183 ($8.8M) Expenses 145 ($7.9M) Net assets 100 ($783k)2021 Revenue 221 ($11M) Expenses 136 ($7.4M) Net assets 503 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 308 ($15M) Expenses 188 ($10M) Net assets 1082 ($8.5M)2023 Revenue 477 ($23M) Expenses 413 ($23M) Net assets 1129 ($8.8M)2024 Revenue 557 ($27M) Expenses 489 ($27M) Net assets 1159 ($9.1M)2025 Revenue 624 ($30M) Expenses 598 ($33M) Net assets 826 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (624)Expenses (598)Net assets (826)Peer revenue range

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 $5.8M to $16M (+175%).

$1.3M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.5M
$5.8M
$16M
$17M
$19M
$20M
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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 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 12% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% · 2024 9% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$653k
’17
$1.1M
’18
$544k
’19
$894k
’20
$3.2M
’21
$4.5M
’22
$370k
’23
$77k
’24
−$2.7M
’25
4.0
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

Roger Zepernick

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed645669131421
Joined·+1+1+2+0+3+7+6+9
No longer listed·30100352
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'20
'25*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA 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

ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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

100% 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 ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL.

84%
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

84% of ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL

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In Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Antonia Pantoja Charter School · exempt
  • Eugenio Maria de Hostos Charter School · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL?
ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,750 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,750 in grants to ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL.
Who is the largest funder of ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL?
THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASPIRA BILINGUAL CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2 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