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INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,231 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$9.7M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$4.8M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Innovation Charter High School does

Mission

Innovation Charter High School ("Innovation") nurtures students to be academically successful, mature, emotionally healthy, and equipped to lead self-directed and fulfilling lives. We embrace all students and we empower them to adapt, excel, innovate and lead. By instilling our core values of collaboration, tolerance, respect, activism, safety, and innovation, students will graduate prepared for success in college and careers. At Innovation Charter High School, our mission is to empower students with the skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to become compassionate leaders, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide quality education to new york city high school students. In fy 2025, Innovation Charter High School served 383 students.

    $5,814,161 spent$7,286,958 earned by the program
    68% of program spending
  2. To provide quality special education to new york city high school students. In fy2025, Innovation Charter High School served 120 special education students.

    $2,770,656 spent$1,851,356 earned by the program
    32% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,584,817.

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 ($10.0M) Expenses 100 ($9.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2018 Revenue 97 ($9.7M) Expenses 107 ($9.9M) Net assets 94 ($3.7M)2019 Revenue 93 ($9.3M) Expenses 102 ($9.4M) Net assets 90 ($3.5M)2020 Revenue 91 ($9.0M) Expenses 92 ($8.5M) Net assets 103 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 93 ($9.2M) Expenses 97 ($9.0M) Net assets 107 ($4.2M)2022 Revenue 107 ($11M) Expenses 108 ($10.0M) Net assets 125 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 103 ($10M) Expenses 108 ($10M) Net assets 130 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 101 ($10M) Expenses 111 ($10M) Net assets 125 ($4.9M)2025 Revenue 97 ($9.7M) Expenses 105 ($9.8M) Net assets 122 ($4.8M)
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Revenue (97)Expenses (105)Net assets (122)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 $4.9M to $5.7M (+15%).

$4.2M
$4.4M
$4.0M
$4.6M
$4.9M
$5.7M
$5.8M
$5.8M
$5.7M
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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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 14% · 2023 9% · 2024 7% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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.

$668k
’17
−$218k
’18
−$162k
’19
$492k
’20
$181k
’21
$703k
’22
$180k
’23
−$191k
’24
−$120k
’25
6.3
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.

Chief executive

Stephen H Falla Riff

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111313171813161717
Joined·+5+2+5+2+1+6+5+4
No longer listed·32116344
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $45 → $25k.

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

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH 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

INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

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

100% of INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL?
INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,231 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,231 in grants to INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL?
IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INNOVATION CHARTER HIGH 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.

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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