New Jersey · Nonprofit
COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $574k
What Compass Academy Charter School does
Mission
The mission of Compass Academy Charter School is to increase each child's success in learning, and as a result, academic achievement. Using the "let me learn process" as its innovative approach, the school leadership and teachers will help students develop a stronger sense-of-self as learners, a greater degree of academic achievement, and a healthy lifestyle for learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Compass Academy Charter School is a nj public school overseen by the state department of education. The school district offers an academic program to assist children in discovering their talents and academic achievement.Compass Academy Charter School provides a full range of services appropriate to grades kindergaten thru grade 5. These services inlcude regular, as well as special education and basic skills instruction. The charter school completed the 2024-2025 school year with an enrollment of 184 students.
$2,287,999 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,287,999.
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 $767k to $1.3M (+64%).
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 76% · 2018 74% · 2019 87% · 2020 86% · 2021 88% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% · 2024 99% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of COMPASS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
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.
Against its field
COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record.
- FEDERAL$4.1M
- STATE AID$1.2M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$76k
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 COMPASS 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPASS ACADEMY 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 COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,000 in grants to COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASS ACADEMY 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 1 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