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HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL

HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,052 to it, the largest being SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$7.0M
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$11k
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets -5481 ($-697717)2018 Revenue 107 ($3.2M) Expenses 114 ($3.0M) Net assets -3726 ($-474263)2019 Revenue 122 ($3.7M) Expenses 133 ($3.5M) Net assets -2186 ($-278215)2020 Revenue 127 ($3.8M) Expenses 139 ($3.6M) Net assets -648 ($-82545)2021 Revenue 141 ($4.3M) Expenses 158 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($13k)2022 Revenue 162 ($4.9M) Expenses 178 ($4.7M) Net assets 4875 ($621k)2023 Revenue 185 ($5.6M) Expenses 210 ($5.5M) Net assets 7885 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 212 ($6.4M) Expenses 215 ($5.7M) Net assets 13830 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 232 ($7.0M) Expenses 257 ($6.8M) Net assets 15895 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (232)Expenses (257)Net assets (15895)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
2019
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 8% · 2022 15% · 2023 11% · 2024 14% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$391k
17
$223k
18
$196k
19
$196k
20
$95k
21
$206k
22
$76k
23
$757k
24
$263k
25
2.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $58.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)95% 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 HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE 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

HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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

95% 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 HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL.

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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

95% of HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $139k on record.

Federal$139k
grants $139kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$139k

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 HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 28%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Howard Gardner School Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL?
HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,052 to it, the largest being SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,052 in grants to HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE CHARTER SCHOOL?
SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOWARD GARDNER MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE 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.

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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing