Georgia · Nonprofit
DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC
DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,269,346 to it, the largest being EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ($3,934,433). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Drew Charter School Inc does
Mission
Drew charter school educates, nurtures and empowers all students to achieve their full potential as part of an exemplary, innovative, and equity-centered community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Drew charter school serves as a key component of the cradle-to-college pipeline within the holistic east lake neighborhood revitalization. Appreciating our unique status as a mixed-income school, drew charter school's primary purpose is to provide an excellent education to all children living in the villages of east lake so that each student reaches his or her full potential and is launched on a pathway to health, impact and prosperity.drew charter school's approach is based on the belief that every child has gifts and talents that must be discovered and nurtured. All students are consistently encouraged to strive to do their best so they may reach their highest potential. A drew education is one that supports strong intellectual, physical, social, and emotional growth, and drew charter school students are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and passion to create positive change in the world.
$47,147,328 spentof which $2,600 as grants$1,111,762 earned by the program98% of program spendingDuring fiscal year 2025, drew charter school provided a variety of athletic programs and other extracurricular activities to its students.
$753,405 spent$803,973 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $47,900,733.
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 2019 to 2020, from $22M to $29M (+29%).
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 84% · 2018 93% · 2019 91% · 2020 92% · 2021 96% · 2022 91% · 2023 82% · 2024 83% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jonathan Tugman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $572k → $862k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 20 funders by total. 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
DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
98% 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 DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 99% · 2019 96% · 2020 49% · 2021 83% · 2022 87% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
100% of DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC has grown faster than half 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 DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC: 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 DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC?
- DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,269,346 to it, the largest being EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ($3,934,433). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $5,269,346 in grants to DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC?
- EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC is the largest funder on record, with $3,934,433 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 20 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