Minnesota · Nonprofit
DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL
DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,600 to it, the largest being Augustino Hiram Zuccaro Foundation ($9,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $-489417
What Discovery Charter School does
Mission
The primary objective of Discovery Charter School is to educate students, to prepare students to become excellent questioners, scientific thinkers and responsible citizens
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Discovery Charter School will embrace a multidisciplinary curriculum with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics stem to provide a challenging learning environment that values creativity, diversity and multiculturalism to prepare its students for life long learning, collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving. Discovery Charter Schools mission is toprepare students to become excellent questioners, scientific thinkers and responsible citizens. Students will work respectfully and collaboratively applying scientific, technological and mathematical concepts and principles to develop a strong work ethic and critical thinking skillsneeded to solve problems in the real world and to prepare them for future academic success
$2,313,780 spent94% of program spendingFood nutrition program
$137,860 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,451,640.
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 2017 to 2018, from $636k to $2.7M (+322%).
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 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 89% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DISCOVERY 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. 6 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
Eldon Merrier
Chair person
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 DISCOVERY 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 DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Minnesota 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
DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 DISCOVERY 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISCOVERY 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 DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,600 to it, the largest being Augustino Hiram Zuccaro Foundation ($9,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,600 in grants to DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- Augustino Hiram Zuccaro Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $9,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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