California · Nonprofit
EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,694 to it, the largest being GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW ($214,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $258k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Extera Public Schools does
Mission
To prepare students for 21st century life and careers. Grounded in a program built upon excellence, equity and engagement, extera will grow students into trailblazers who are lifelong learners and conscientious change agents for their communities and beyond. With a focus on the natural world and the interconnectedness of all living things, children attending Extera Public Schools engage in learning that provides real world relevance and nurtures self-empowerment in order to develop students from local to global citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Extera Public Schools operated two public charter schools: extera public school (eps) and extera public school no. 2 (eps 2). During the 2024-25 school year, the schools collectively served approximately 360 students with eps serving grades transitional kindgarten (tk) to 8 and eps 2 serving grades tk to 5. The vision of Extera Public Schools is to empower children in boyle heights and east los angeles to thrive as leaders in the 21st century.
$7,772,238 spent$87,836 earned by the program75% of program spendingDuring the year, the organization discontinued a planned facility development project, located at 1059 south gage avenue in east los angeles, after the la county board of supervisors revoked required permits, making the project no longer feasible. After reassessing feasibility, the board approved abandonment of the project. Capitalized preconstruction costs were written off in accordance with accounting standards. The organization's educational and instructional programs continued without interruption at the existing operating sites.
$2,621,754 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,393,992.
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 $13M to $7.1M (−46%).
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 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 95% · 2021 95% · 2022 95% · 2023 96% · 2024 94% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 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
Nicole Duquette
Executive director
Board chair
Norman Bullock
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $16.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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 EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 76% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS is better cushioned 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 EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: 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 EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,694 to it, the largest being GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW ($214,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $257,694 in grants to EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW is the largest funder on record, with $214,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXTERA PUBLIC SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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