New York · Nonprofit
EDCEPTIONAL INC
EDCEPTIONAL INC (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,797,942 to it, the largest being PETER A AND MARION W SCHWARTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST ($1,800,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $699k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $147k
What Edceptional Inc does
Mission
Edceptional was created to help expand the number of high-quality k - 12 public education seats for all low-income children living in the city of rochester, ny, regardless of school type, charter or district. The mission includes strengthening and growing the charter school sector in rochester and supporting charter schools that have the leadership and model needed to be successful. Edceptional supports all local charter schools by operating a charter school application and information web site (goodschoolsroc.org) where parents can view all rochester area charter schools and apply to those of their choice. Edceptional also facilitates collaboration and sharing of best practices among the rochester charter schools, with an emphasis on leadership development at the board level and school management team level, as well as understanding the importance of a positive, enabling school culture. An important emphasis is to provide coaching to school leaders and teachers to implement literacy programs based on recent neurological research on how the brain learns to read. Such programs have proven successful in raising the percentage of students reading at grade level by double digit…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A. Edceptional operates, maintains, and promotes a website, goodschoolsroc.org, that provides a portal for city parents to view and learn about 27 charter school locations in rochester and then submit a single online application to one or more schools of their choice. This has resulted in a substantial increase in applications to charter schools while leading the charter schools to work more closely together. It has also raised the visibility of the charter school section now edcuating nearly one third of the city's public-school students. B. Edceptional operates a literacy initiative for charter schools, providing expert coaches to train teachers on how to teach reading and writing consistent with the science of reading. Coaching also extends to how to observe classrooms and provide useful feedback to teachers to improve their pedagogy, how to collect and analyse data on student progress to pinpoint gaps in learning and focus teaching on eliminating those gaps through extra instruction, implementing better curricula and schedules, etc. This program has resulted in double digit improvements in student performance. C. Edceptional provides coaching to school leadership teams and…
$607,163 spentof which $2,250 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $607,163.
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 2018 to 2019, from $8.3M to $366k (−96%).
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.
99% of EDCEPTIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Rev Sebrone Johnson
CEO
Board chair
James Brush
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $401k → $500k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 EDCEPTIONAL INC’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
EDCEPTIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 36% · 2019 52% · 2020 42% · 2021 60% · 2022 69% · 2023 70% — 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
64% of EDCEPTIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
93% of EDCEPTIONAL INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $755k 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
EDCEPTIONAL INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EDCEPTIONAL 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 EDCEPTIONAL 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 EDCEPTIONAL INC?
- EDCEPTIONAL INC (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,797,942 to it, the largest being PETER A AND MARION W SCHWARTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST ($1,800,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDCEPTIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,797,942 in grants to EDCEPTIONAL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDCEPTIONAL INC?
- PETER A AND MARION W SCHWARTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDCEPTIONAL INC 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 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing