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COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,508 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($6,483). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$665M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$512M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Commonwealth Charter Academy Charter School does

Mission

Cca's mission is to deliver a personalized learning experience that engages the entire family and prepares learners to succeed in school and in life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Commonwealth charter academy is an independent cyber charter school with a primary purpose to provide a personalized education to students in pennsylvania. Currently, the school serves approximately 39,500 students.

    $570,478,165 spent$632,810,417 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $570,478,165.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($130M) Expenses 100 ($111M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 110 ($143M) Expenses 102 ($114M) Net assets 1052 ($32M)2020 Revenue 126 ($164M) Expenses 113 ($126M) Net assets 2327 ($71M)2021 Revenue 242 ($315M) Expenses 183 ($204M) Net assets 5988 ($183M)2022 Revenue 305 ($397M) Expenses 247 ($275M) Net assets 10006 ($305M)2023 Revenue 323 ($421M) Expenses 327 ($364M) Net assets 11853 ($361M)2024 Revenue 409 ($532M) Expenses 402 ($447M) Net assets 14625 ($446M)2025 Revenue 511 ($665M) Expenses 537 ($598M) Net assets 16805 ($512M)
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Revenue (511)Expenses (537)Net assets (16805)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 2021 to 2022, from $339M to $560M (+65%).

$115M
$152M
$204M
$339M
$560M
$676M
$856M
$983M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 9% · 2022 13% · 2023 6% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 731 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$19M
’18
$29M
’19
$39M
’20
$112M
’21
$123M
’22
$56M
’23
$85M
’24
$67M
’25
4.8
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.

Chief executive

Thomas Longenecker

President/CEO

Board chair

Jeff Piccola

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1416141615151515
Joined·+2+2+3+1+3+2+4
No longer listed·0412324
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $536 → $2k.

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

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 COMMONWEALTH CHARTER 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

COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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

86% 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 COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL.

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 80% · 2023 82% — 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.

Where its funders are

86% of COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.

NY

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

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’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMONWEALTH CHARTER 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,508 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($6,483). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,508 in grants to COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMONWEALTH CHARTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMONWEALTH CHARTER 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.

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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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