New York · Nonprofit
Genesee Community Charter School
Genesee Community Charter School (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,857 to it, the largest being William & Sheila Konar Foundation ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $368k
What Genesee Community Charter School does
Mission
To provide a rich educational experience that values intellectual rigor, respect for diversity, and community responsibility.(Continued on Schedule O)Our local history-based and globally-connected program immerses children in investigation and discovery, extensively using the cultural and natural resources of our community. We nurture children's natural abilities to be reflective questioners, articulate communicators, critical thinkers, and skilled problem solvers enabling them to reach exemplary standards.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Genesee Community Charter School is located on the campus of the Rochester Museum & Science Center. Genesee Community Charter School enrolls approximately 212 students in kindergarten through sixth grades. As a charter school, Genesee Community Charter School is publicly funded and there is no tuition. Enrollment is open to all students who meet our age guidelines and a lottery is held in April of each year for incoming kindergarten students and for vacancies as they are available in first through sixth grades. Continued on Schedule OGenesee Community Charter School's curriculum focuses on local history and the natural world and-as an Expeditionary Learning school-students are immersed in three interdisciplinary learning expeditions each year. Classes frequently venture into the community for purposeful and rigorous field studies integral to their ongoing learning experiences. Music, visual arts, dance, and creative movement are integrated into the academic and social life at Genesee Community Charter School. The school is nationally recognized for its implementation of the Expeditionary Learning model and its approach to arts integration. Since it was founded in 2001, Genesee…
$2,981,959 spent$3,023,206 earned by the program92% of program spendingGCCS offers breakfast and lunch daily to all students. Meals are delivered fresh every day by Julia K Caters, and are served "family style" in the classrooms. GCCS participates in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's school meal program. At the start of each new school year, all students are sent an application for free and reduced meals and are encouraged to apply. Those students who qualify are offered meals at a reduced or no cost. Students that do not qualify for free or reduced meals have the option to pay full price, or may bring meals from home. GCCS will continue to encourage all families to participate in its meal program.
$178,039 spent$141,116 earned by the program5% of program spendingGCCS has fully included our students with special needs. Speech/ language, occupational therapy, and counseling services are delivered both in and out of the classroom by professionals or staff from the child's district of residence. A special education teacher has been provided by the Rochester City School District for our students requiring resource room or consultant teacher services. GCCS has a special education coordinator who helps to maintain compliance with special education regulations. This person also works with teachers on academic intervention, and assists parents and staff through the CSE referral process. This person is also highly trained in the Wilson Language/Literacy Program, and works with small groups of students to enhance their reading levels.
$78,993 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,238,991.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $1.6M (−27%).
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 4% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 11% · 2023 9% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of Genesee Community Charter School’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.
Board chair
Colin Orr
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $108.
1 of 6 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 Genesee Community 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
Genesee Community Charter School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 80% · 2022 90% · 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
76% of Genesee Community Charter School's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $707 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Genesee Community Charter School receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $43k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Genesee Community 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Genesee Community 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Genesee Community Charter School?
- Genesee Community Charter School (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,857 to it, the largest being William & Sheila Konar Foundation ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Genesee Community Charter School have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $42,857 in grants to Genesee Community Charter School, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Genesee Community Charter School?
- William & Sheila Konar Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Genesee Community Charter School 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.
Play a game about who funds Genesee Community Charter School →
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 6 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