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G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC

G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,870 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.8M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$167k
Net assets
$-3585347
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What G-Star School of the Arts Inc does

Mission

The organization is a florida charter school as provided for and by florida statutes. The school is authorized by and under contract with the palm beach county florida school district. The school provides education for high school students with an emphasis on arts and theater.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. G-star school of the arts is a not-for-profit public, charter high school that was established in 2003 in palm beach county. A central component of the school's vision is to create an on-going and self-sustaining feature-film industry in palm beach county and south florida. In this way the school's students will go on to graduate from college and return to be employed in a film industry that the school has helped develop. The school's students are intended to be the future writers, directors, producers, actors, editors, and crew for that industry. There were 700 students enrolled for the 2024/2025 school year.

    $7,825,559 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,825,559.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.5M) Expenses 100 ($7.6M)2018 Revenue 97 ($7.3M) Expenses 107 ($8.1M)2019 Revenue 92 ($6.9M) Expenses 103 ($7.9M)2020 Revenue 88 ($6.6M) Expenses 90 ($6.8M)2021 Revenue 92 ($6.9M) Expenses 95 ($7.2M)2022 Revenue 110 ($8.3M) Expenses 100 ($7.6M)2023 Revenue 118 ($8.8M) Expenses 125 ($9.5M)2024 Revenue 146 ($11M) Expenses 128 ($9.7M)2025 Revenue 118 ($8.8M) Expenses 121 ($9.2M)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (121)Peer revenue range

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 $7.3M to $8.0M (+10%).

$8.7M
$8.1M
$7.5M
$6.8M
$7.1M
$7.3M
$8.0M
$7.7M
$7.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 94% · 2018 90% · 2019 89% · 2020 96% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 101% · 2024 100% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$117k
’17
−$889k
’18
−$944k
’19
−$202k
’20
−$317k
’21
$690k
’22
−$656k
’23
$1.2M
’24
−$348k
’25
0.7
months of
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

Piero Navarro

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed774556656
Joined·+0+1+1+0+1+0+2+1
No longer listed·04000030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $66k → $101k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $151k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest G-Star School Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 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

G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC.

60%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 77% · 2023 99% — 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

G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.

DC
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30 on record.

State$30
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $30

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 G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC?
G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,870 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $166,870 in grants to G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC?
THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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