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CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC

CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,927 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($80,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$87k
Net assets
$1.5M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Christa McAuliffe Charter School Foundation Inc does

Mission

To support the functions and purpose of christa mcauliffe charter school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To support the activities of christa mcauliffe charter school (formerly christa mcauliffe regional charter public school).

    $674,791 spent$3,140,718 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $674,791.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($946k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($840k)2019 Revenue 94 ($886k) Expenses 87 ($945k) Net assets 69 ($583k)2020 Revenue 70 ($658k) Expenses 92 ($993k) Net assets 30 ($248k)2021 Revenue 80 ($758k) Expenses 87 ($940k) Net assets 8 ($66k)2022 Revenue 74 ($698k) Expenses 87 ($940k) Net assets -21 ($-176487)2023 Revenue 66 ($624k) Expenses 84 ($908k) Net assets -55 ($-460618)2024 Revenue 72 ($680k) Expenses 84 ($911k) Net assets -82 ($-692121)2025 Revenue 341 ($3.2M) Expenses 92 ($992k) Net assets 184 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (341)Expenses (92)Net assets (184)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $9.1M to $8.6M (−6%).

$8.7M
$9.1M
$8.6M
$8.3M
$8.0M
$7.7M
$7.4M
$7.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

3% of CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$137k
’17
−$59k
’19
−$334k
’20
−$182k
’21
−$242k
’22
−$284k
’23
−$232k
’24
$2.2M
’25
36
months of
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.

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Listed1112995677
Joined··+2+1+0+3+2+0
No longer listed··514210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $369.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
2
1
1
1
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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

CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC.

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 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.

Where its funders are

94% of CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin69% · top quartile
Months of reserve36.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC

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In Massachusetts

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Christa McAuliffe Charter School · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,927 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($80,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $86,927 in grants to CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $80,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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