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EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,394 to it, the largest being MAX AND MARIAN FARASH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($13,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Exploration Elementary Charter School for Science & Technology does
Mission
The mission of exploration elementary charter school for science and technology is to engage students, their families, and the community in the processes of scientific inquiry and the use of innovative technology to develop the social, emotional, and academic tools necessary to thrive in school and in today's interconnected world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Professional development for teachers and staff begin our return to school and preparation for students. The focus is equipping teachers and staff to effectively support tier 1 behavior systems, as well as tier 1 and tier 2 academic instruction. Professional development will continue throughout the school year as a strategic approach to ensuring we meet new state proficiency targets. The school spends more than 60 hours in professional development to make sure teachers and staff have the resources they need to be successful. In addition, we strengthen our students' academics by the use of reading specialists and interventionists to provide targeted support so students can improve academically and maintain their progress.
$4,601,046 spent$4,956,996 earned by the program86% of program spendingBased on the data from our I-ready assessments given school wide, we provided 2.0 teachers in each classroom to provide instruction to all studetns in small group centers. This frameworks allows us to provide more support to all studetns who are 2 or more grade levels below.
$732,816 spent$307,331 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,333,862.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.2M to $5.4M (+68%).
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 100% · 2018 21% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 16% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% · 2024 11% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 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
Maya Crane
Chair/ed - eff. Sept. 24
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.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY’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
EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
40% 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 EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.
“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 EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 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 EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY?
- EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,394 to it, the largest being MAX AND MARIAN FARASH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($13,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,394 in grants to EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.
- Who is the largest funder of EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY?
- MAX AND MARIAN FARASH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXPLORATION ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 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 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