New York · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES INC
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE SHILLING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Friends of Public Prep Academies Inc does
Mission
Friends of Public Prep Academies Inc was organized to create girls prep charter school of ny (now known as public prep charter school academies), support the school and its students, and make contributions to the school, with the goal of promoting educational achievement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Friends of Public Prep Academies Inc's purpose is to support public prep charter school academies, its affiliate. Public prep charter school academies (ppa) is a public charter school education corp. Friends of public prep academies assists ppa in obtaining adequate facilities in which to operate its schools.
$324,114 spent$2,127,064 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $324,114.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $75M to $167M (+122%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES 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. 3 of the last 7 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
Janelle Bradshaw
CEO, ppn thru aug 2024
Board chair
Mark Diker
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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES 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.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
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
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES 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
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Girls Prep Bronx II LLC · disregarded
- Public Prep Charter School Academies · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES 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 FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES INC?
- FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE SHILLING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES INC?
- THE SHILLING FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF PUBLIC PREP ACADEMIES 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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