New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL
BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,639 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($419,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $603k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Brooklyn Charter School does
Mission
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. We use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. This approach is based on the latest research in effective education and combines "traditional teacher-directed and "student-centered or "project-based" approaches to effectively address the needs of all learners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Brooklyn Charter School (bcs) is a k-5 elementary school that provides a range of educational services.bcs is the first charter approved by the new york city department of education. Brooklyn Charter School believes that every child has the ability to learn and therefore deserves the best opportunities to excel in school and in life.we bring this vision to reality through a core academic curriculum in humanities, math and science.we further incorporate the use of the latest learning technologies and programs as an integral instructional tool.Brooklyn Charter School offers daily coding classes where our students are empowered to build grit, develop a growth mind-set and become independent problem-solvers as early as kindergarten.bcs also prides itself in its creative arts programming.a rigorous academic calendar, a deliberate approach to social and emotional well-being, a strong & stable leadership team along with highly qualified and dedicated teachers provides the platform for success in making bcs an academically competitive institution. The school completed the 2023-2024 fiscal year with an average enrollment of approximately 196 students.
$3,741,731 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,741,731.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.2M to $2.4M (−25%).
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 96% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 94% · 2024 93% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL’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. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $222k.
From the IRS filings of BROOKLYN 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
BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 96% · 2022 71% · 2023 74% — diversifying over time.
“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
BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
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
BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BROOKLYN 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL?
- BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,639 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($419,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $602,639 in grants to BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $419,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 6 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