Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE
HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $875,708 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($472,623). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $876k
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science does
Mission
The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. We were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for stem careers among african american students. Our middle school serves grades 6 - 8 from all wards in washington dc with the majority of our students living in wards 7 and 8. Because of our rigorous curriculum, an average of 45% of our 8th-grade students is regularly accepted into selective high schools in washington dc. In 2016, we had the first students promoted from our school to graduate from howard university, all of them pursuing careers in stem fields. Our partnership with howard university provides our students with the opportunity to experience college while in middle school. Our students visit college classes, are mentored and tutored by college students, and experience science first hand in the biology and chemistry laboratories on campus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The howard university public charter middle school of mathematics and science used a personalized learning focused curriculum designed to help students in mathematics and science and to connect and integrate stem disciplines into all core subjects. All students regardless of skill levels, learning styles, personalities, and cultures, were prepared to meet and exceed the learning standards requirements for the district of columbia. Teachers customized the learning environment to adapt to distance learning and the needs of every learner.
$7,250,956 spent$7,369,585 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,250,956.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.1M to $4.2M (+33%).
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 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 18% · 2023 20% · 2024 21% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Kathryn Procope
Executive director
Board chair
Wendell L Johns
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $131k → $96k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE’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 UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
46% 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 UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
17% of HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE's revenue grew 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE
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In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE?
- HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $875,708 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($472,623). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $875,708 in grants to HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $472,623 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 12 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