New York · Nonprofit
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $654,700 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($403,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $655k
- Net assets
- $-4246741
What East Harlem Scholars Academy Charter School does
Mission
East harlem scholars academies are public charter schools that prepare students with the skills, strength of character, and emotional well-being to excel academically, lead in their communities, and realize their best possible selves. Scholars academies were founded by east harlem tutorial program (ehtp), a community-based organization founded in 1958.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
East harlem scholars academies is grounded in our core values and guiding principles that help instill in our scholars a deep sense of awareness, self-advocacy, commitment to equity, and intellectual curiosity.east harlem scholars academies believes that the best learning occurs when children engage in higher-order, critical thinking. To thrive in the 21st century workforce and successfully pursue boundless possibilities, our students learn to question, analyze, and apply their learning meaningfully. Students develop the essential critical reasoning and leadership skills to succeed in their endeavors, both inside and outside the classroom. We value a nurturing and supportive environment that supports students' love of learning and of themselves. We place a premium on students' cognitive, creative, social and emotional growth, and physical health, blending rigor with joy to ensure our scholars are inspired to learn. Students explore their individual aspirations through the school experience, developing rich personal connections to their learning.our learning community instills in all scholars a deep sense of self-esteem, cultural pride, and global responsibility so that they…
$35,756,655 spent$30,750,042 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,756,655.
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 2024 to 2025, from $59M to $154M (+160%).
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 10% · 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 8% · 2024 6% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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
Marina Cofield
Chief executive officer
Board chair
William Rahm
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $182k → $7k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $16M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest East Harlem Tutorial Program Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY 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
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
96% 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 EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL 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 EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- East Harlem Tutorial Program Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $654,700 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($403,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $654,700 in grants to EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $403,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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