Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC
CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,560,541 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $46M
What Carmen High School of Science and Technology Inc does
Mission
To graduate all students as critical thinkers and self-directed learners prepared for success in college, meaninful careers, community involvement and family life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Carmen schools of science & technology proudly offers free k4 through 12th grade education to families in greater milwaukee. Our schools are located in both milwaukee's north and south sides, within unique and vibrant neighborhoods like lincoln village, layton park, and silver spring.the college preparatory network, comprising six schools across five campuses, envisions students achieving proficiency in scientific inquiry, creative discovery, and constructive problem solving. Students will have professional-level skills in technology and will gain admission to colleges and apprenticeship programs that enable them to become civic leaders, authors, artists, scientists, teachers, or doctors. All students will achieve the education and professional development needed for career, family and community-sustaining success. Our student to teacher ratio is 1:14.
$15,297,757 spent$18,703,927 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,297,757.
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 2022 to 2023, from $26M to $41M (+56%).
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 9% · 2018 11% · 2019 12% · 2020 16% · 2021 20% · 2022 29% · 2023 40% · 2024 52% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Bradshaw
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $3.6M.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 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
CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 32% · 2019 89% · 2020 30% · 2021 48% · 2022 45% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $964k on record.
- Department of Education$964k
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 CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Carmen High School Development Organization Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: 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 CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC?
- CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,560,541 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $8,560,541 in grants to CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 21 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