New York · Nonprofit
DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $498k
What Destine Preparatory Charter School does
Mission
The purpose for which the corporation is organized is to establish and operate a charter school to ensure academic success for students in grades k-5 in schenectady. Destine Preparatory Charter School promises a rigorous academic program driven by equitable use of services for all students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Every child can learn and deserves a school that recognizes their potential. To foster a supportive learning environment for all students, we create individualized learning plans in collaboration with families. The plans are based on the specific needs of each child. All scholars should be nurtured and challenged through a broad and balanced curriculum to achieve their true potential. Our aim is to cream stimulating environments that inspire learning, evoke curiosity, and challenge expectations.
$2,378,273 spent$2,098,707 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,378,273.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $522k to $2.4M (+351%).
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: 2022 43% · 2023 97% · 2024 29% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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 DESTINE PREPARATORY 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
DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
100% 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 DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL.
“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
100% of DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New York 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
DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL has grown faster 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
Organizations like DESTINE PREPARATORY 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESTINE PREPARATORY 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 DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $135,000 in grants to DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL 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.
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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 2022–2025), 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