New York · Nonprofit
DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,011,106 to it, the largest being ANDRE AGASSI FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ($8,317,752). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Democracy Prep Public Schools does
Mission
To educate responsible citizen scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization operates as a charter management organization providing educational services, management operations and fundraising activities for the following charter schools: democracy prep new york charter schools, democracy prep baton rouge, democracy prep agassi campus, and democracy prep texas. Democracy prep charter schools educate responsible citizen-scholars for success in the college of their choice and for lives of active citizenship.in close partnership with families, we empower young people with the skills and values to flourish as community leaders who will strengthen our american democracy and change the world!
$17,140,495 spentof which $2,155,178 as grants$17,313,846 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,140,495.
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 $20M to $52M (+165%).
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 13% · 2018 11% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 18% · 2022 6% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Natasha Trivers
CEO thru 06/30/25
Board chair
Ryan Offutt
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $6.0M → $1.7M.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS’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
DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 51% · 2022 87% · 2023 90% — 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.
How long its funders stay
18% of DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $662k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Education$5.7M
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 DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Democracy Prep Nevada LLC · exempt
- Democracy Prep Agassi Campus · exempt
- Democracy Prep Texas · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: 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 DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,011,106 to it, the largest being ANDRE AGASSI FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ($8,317,752). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $13,011,106 in grants to DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- ANDRE AGASSI FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,317,752 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 17 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