Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL
FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,578,093 to it, the largest being GABRIELLA & PAUL ROSENBAUM FOUNDATION ($1,164,978). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Folk Arts Cultural Treasures Charter School does
Mission
Facts provides children with an exemplary education that utilizes traditional arts and cultures found within their own and neighboring communities as the catalyst for critical inquiry and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
K-8 public education. Facts provides approximately 500 philadelphia children with an education which has high academic standards, it truly community based, incorporates and respects the lives of students and their families, engages students in understanding their own cultures and communities, and engages student in understanding their role as active participants in working for a just society.
$5,364,015 spent$9,194,058 earned by the program84% of program spendingEnglish for speakers of other languages program (esol): a core impetus behind facts founding was to address the particular needs of immigrant and refugee students and their families. Two thirds of facts students speak a language other than english at home. 30% of facts students receive esol services. Our nationally recognized esol program engages esol specialists in collaboration with classroom teachers to best meet the needs of individual students.
$566,668 spent9% of program spendingFacts participates in the national school breakfast and lunch community eligibility provision program during the 2024-2025 school year. Facts offered free breakfast and lunch to all students.
$475,371 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,406,054.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.4M to $7.8M (+42%).
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 8% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 8% · 2021 17% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% · 2024 23% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES 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. 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.
Board chair
Thierry Elin-Saintine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $373k → $5k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES 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
FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 82% · 2022 61% · 2023 93% — 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
75% of FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $632k on record.
- Department of Education$399k
- National Endowment for the Arts$233k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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 FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL?
- FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,578,093 to it, the largest being GABRIELLA & PAUL ROSENBAUM FOUNDATION ($1,164,978). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,578,093 in grants to FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL?
- GABRIELLA & PAUL ROSENBAUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,164,978 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 10 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