Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,531,096 to it, the largest being MAPLEWOOD FOUNDATION ($566,073). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocal
- State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Incportfolio match
- 50can Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2020 23% · 2021 24% · 2022 16% · 2023 10% · 2024 13% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $163k → $17.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CATALYST ACADEMY 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
CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 33% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
0% of CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
93% of CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 50can Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate 215portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whirlpool Collective Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools for Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York City Center for Charter School Excellenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silicon Schools Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louis Calder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Education$1.4M
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 CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATALYST ACADEMY 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,531,096 to it, the largest being MAPLEWOOD FOUNDATION ($566,073). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,531,096 in grants to CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- MAPLEWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $566,073 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing