New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL
BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $279k
What Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School does
Mission
To operate a public charter school and to provide education to children in grades kindergarten through eighth grade based on rigorous teaching methods, parental involvement, student responsibility, and basic moral values. The school operates under a charter approved by the state university of new york. Enrollment is open to all appropriately aged children without regard to gender, ethnic background, disability, and/or religious affiliation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operated an educational institution organized as a public charter school. The school provides education, at no cost to the parent, to students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The school operates under a charter approved by the state university of new york.
$10,646,168 spent$114,428 earned by the program96% of program spendingOperated a school food service program at the public charter school described above. The school offers free or reduced breakfast and/or lunch for families that qualify. Research has shown that students who eat their breakfast in the morning exhibit better memory retention. Funding for this program was provided by the usda food and nutrition service, in the amount of $487,087.
$475,530 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,121,698.
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 2020 to 2021, from $434k to $823k (+90%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New York funders.
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 EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL's revenue grew 15% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL?
- BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL?
- NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE 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 BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR 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 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