New York · Nonprofit
EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC
EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,450 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($128,450). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Explore Schools Inc does
Mission
To provide strategic planning, board governance, financial oversight, human resources, and other management support to a network of k-8 charter schools in under-served communities that provide students with the academic skills and critical-thinking abilities they need to succeed in a college-preparatory high school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
There are approximately 1,700 students enrolled in the network's educational corporation in brooklyn for the 2024-2025 academic year. To realize its mission, esi provides value-added support to schools within the network that provide student in underserved communities with access to high-quality public education.
$2,790,748 spentof which $10,946 as grants$4,541,486 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,790,748.
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 $2.2M to $1.4M (−36%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 16% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC’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. 7 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
Karen Francois
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $57k → $128k.
From the IRS filings of EXPLORE SCHOOLS 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
EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
100% 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 EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 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
EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 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
EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC 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 EXPLORE SCHOOLS 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 EXPLORE SCHOOLS 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 EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC?
- EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,450 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($128,450). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $185,450 in grants to EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of EXPLORE SCHOOLS INC?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $128,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXPLORE SCHOOLS 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 3 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