New Jersey · Nonprofit
CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL
CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,085 to it, the largest being PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Central Jersey College Prep Charter School does
Mission
The mission of central jersey college preparatory charter school ("cjcp") is to provide academic and social challenges to students, while instilling in them the skills and knowledge that they will need to succeed in their future endeavors. Cjcp aims to forge a powerful partnership out of the student-teacher-parent triad. This partnership will provide and empower our youth with the support necessary to reach their highest potential - intellectually, socially, emotionally and physically - while building on their inherent promise to aid in their preparation for college and career. Cjcp's overall academic goals are to prepare its students for the challenges that they will face after high school; to provide the necessary skills and tools they will require to be successful in college and beyond; to turn them into lifelong learners and independent thinkers who appreciate and embrace diversity, teamwork and mutual respect; and to nurture in them an immense level of personal integrity. Non-acad
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Central Jersey College Prep Charter School provides a full range of services appropriate to Grades Kindergarten thru 12. These services include regular, as well as special education and basic skills instruction. The Charter School completed the 2024-2025 school year with an enrollment of 1381 students.
$24,244,356 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,244,356.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $24M (+110%).
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 88% · 2018 84% · 2019 92% · 2020 92% · 2021 91% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% · 2024 95% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP 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. 1 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
Dr Namik Sercan
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $62.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP 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
CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin 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 CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Education$1.2M
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 CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP 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 CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL?
- CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,085 to it, the largest being PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,085 in grants to CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL?
- PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL JERSEY COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 4 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