Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL
DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,186 to it, the largest being Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation ($530,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $700k
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What DC Hebrew Language Charter School does
Mission
The mission of sela is to offer children of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds in the district of columbia, from pre-k to 5th grade, the opportunities to achieve academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment that focuses on hebrew language immersion, promotes the value of diversity and provides the skills for taking action in the world. Sela's primary sources of support are local appropriations for charter schools from the district of columbia government.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sela pcs is founded on the premise that fluency in more than one language develops a greater ability to communicate with and to understand other cultures. As a dual-language school committed to immersion, sela pcs helps students achieve language proficiency in two languages - including reading and oral proficiency - and sets high learning standards for both english language arts and hebrew language, choosing curricula that provide its teachers with the instructional resources to successfully develop these skills and abilities in its students.
$7,852,164 spent$8,610,297 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,852,164.
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 $3.2M to $11M (+245%).
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 10% · 2018 10% · 2019 5% · 2020 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 20% · 2023 5% · 2024 13% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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.
Board chair
Alen Amini
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $375k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 DC HEBREW LANGUAGE 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
DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 99% · 2022 75% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.
Against its field
DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like DC HEBREW LANGUAGE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL?
- DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,186 to it, the largest being Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation ($530,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $700,186 in grants to DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL?
- Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DC HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 6 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