New York · Nonprofit
CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,985,113 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($1,500,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Central Queens Academy Charter School does
Mission
The mission of the Central Queens Academy Charter School is to prepare students for success in education, the workforce, and the community though a school that integrates literacy, high standards-based academics, and culturally responsive supportive services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Central Queens Academy Charter Schools (cqa) includes two public charter elementary schools and one public charter middle school. Cqa serves the families and students of community school district 24 in queens, new york. The schools provide a rigorous, college-preparatory program designed to work specifically with english language learners, the nation's fastest growing student population.for the last 12 consecutive years of available nys state exam data, our students have outperformed city, state, and district in every grade. Cqa has achieved clean financial audits every year since opening in 2011.
$27,394,493 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,394,493.
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 $14M to $105M (+628%).
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 91% · 2018 94% · 2019 83% · 2020 97% · 2021 91% · 2022 89% · 2023 94% · 2024 87% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY 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. 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
Ashish Kapadia
Executive director
Board chair
Joyce Wu
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $227k → $589k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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 QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
54% 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 QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 64% · 2019 39% · 2020 32% · 2021 61% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% — 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.
How long its funders stay
71% of CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
54% of CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,985,113 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($1,500,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $6,985,113 in grants to CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY 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 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing