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CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D

CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,470 to it, the largest being The Philadelphia Schools Project ($20,136). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$10M
Revenue FY2020
3
Funders on record
$43k
Grants received
$-8806951
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.3M) Expenses 100 ($7.9M)2018 Revenue 115 ($8.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.9M)2019 Revenue 121 ($8.8M) Expenses 130 ($10M)2020 Revenue 137 ($10M) Expenses 84 ($6.6M)
2017201820192020
Revenue (137)Expenses (84)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$524k
17
$530k
18
$1.4M
19
$3.5M
20
0.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $20k.

Funder
'17
'19
'20
total
$20k
funders
2
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $451k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Designing Futures Foundation Co Santilli & Thomson LLC). These are real filings, and they are not money CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D raised.

From the IRS filings of CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D’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

CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D.

46%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 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.

Where its funders are

92% of CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
19
20
Pennsylvania out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Organizations like CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 34%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Designing Futures Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D: 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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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 CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D?
CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,470 to it, the largest being The Philadelphia Schools Project ($20,136). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,470 in grants to CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D?
The Philadelphia Schools Project is the largest funder on record, with $20,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE & D 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 3funders 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