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HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL

HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,576 to it, the largest being CAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.8M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$107k
Net assets
$149k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Hope Community Charter School does

Mission

The mission of Hope Community Charter School is to provide a safe, caring, literacy rich learning environment that guides and inspires students in building a solid academic foundation. Literacy will be the path to a solid academic foundation by developing, in each student, a highly literate and effective communicator who is a self reflective and responsible decision maker.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Hope Community Charter School provides a full range of educational services appropriate to grade levels kindergarten through grade 6. The charter school completed the 2024-2025 school year with an enrollment of 113 students, which was a decrease of 15.04% from the previous school year. While the state of new jersey's budget restraints was felt down to the charter school level, there was no compromise to the quality of the programs in place at Hope Community Charter School during the regular instructional day. The charter school's budget was prepared to ensure that all students have textbooks, materials, supplies, equipment and programs which they might need to meet new jersey's core curriculum content standard.

    $3,015,996 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,015,996.

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 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($694k)2018 Revenue 102 ($3.5M) Expenses 110 ($3.6M) Net assets 62 ($428k)2019 Revenue 87 ($3.0M) Expenses 90 ($3.0M) Net assets 59 ($411k)2020 Revenue 71 ($2.4M) Expenses 94 ($3.1M) Net assets -39 ($-267375)2021 Revenue 92 ($3.1M) Expenses 84 ($2.7M) Net assets 14 ($97k)2022 Revenue 101 ($3.4M) Expenses 102 ($3.4M) Net assets 21 ($145k)2023 Revenue 113 ($3.8M) Expenses 116 ($3.8M) Net assets 24 ($167k)2024 Revenue 111 ($3.8M) Expenses 113 ($3.7M) Net assets 31 ($215k)2025 Revenue 114 ($3.8M) Expenses 119 ($3.9M) Net assets 21 ($149k)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (119)Net assets (21)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $2.3M (+92%).

$905k
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$2.3M
$2.1M
$1.8M
$1.4M
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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 73% · 2018 85% · 2019 85% · 2020 101% · 2021 98% · 2022 102% · 2023 94% · 2024 95% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$96k
’17
−$161k
’18
−$17k
’19
−$678k
’20
$364k
’21
$48k
’22
$22k
’23
$48k
’24
−$66k
’25
1.5
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

Barbara Wallace

Chair-trustees

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed61010879867
Joined·+6+0+0+0+2+4+3+1
No longer listed·20210550
03Who funds it

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 HOPE 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

HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $107k to it.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like HOPE 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 Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
57%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,576 to it, the largest being CAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $106,576 in grants to HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
CAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INC 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 HOPE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2 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