Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,829,995 to it, the largest being BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ($38,574,114). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $66M
- Net assets
- $53M
What Independence Mission Schools does
Mission
Independence Mission Schools manages a network of catholic elementary schools through a central office location which provides support to all of the schools. The mission of ims is to provide sustainable, affordable, high-quality catholic education to nearly 4,000 children of all faiths in underserved urban neighborhoods through a new model of governance, funding, and accountability for the member schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Independence missions schools fiercely believes in thelife-changingimpact of catholic school education. The sy24-25 will mark the 13th year for ims as an independent nonprofit operating 14 philadelphia-area neighborhood catholic schools committed to studentachievement and growth. By creating high-achieving, safe and loving learning environments, ims continues to outperform national and high-poverty learning growth statisticsin both english language arts and math. We continue to track toward thegoals as outlined in the strategic plan. We prepareour studentsfor success in high school, college, and life.donors continue to show their support as we enter the final 6 months of the capital campaign in support of the strategic plan.
$29,988,796 spentof which $1,217,721 as grants$9,217,361 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,988,796.
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 2022 to 2023, from $39M to $52M (+32%).
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: 2021 12% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Gianna D'Angelo
President and CEO
Board chair
Brian Mcelwee
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $3.4M → $11M.
15 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. 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
INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 74% · 2019 80% · 2020 78% · 2021 55% · 2022 36% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
93% of INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: 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 INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS?
- INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,829,995 to it, the largest being BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ($38,574,114). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $65,829,995 in grants to INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS?
- BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $38,574,114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS 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.
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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 71 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing