Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,691 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($66,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $158k
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Inspired Teaching Demonstration Public Charter School does
Mission
A professional learning community of master teachers and teacher residents who ensure that a diverse group of students achieve their potential as accomplished learners, thoughtful citizens, and imaginative and inquisitive problem solvers through a demanding, inquiry-based curriculum. The goals for our students are centered around four principles: intellect, inquiry, imagination and integrity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
At the Inspired Teaching Demonstration Public Charter School (the "school"), a professional learning community of master teachers and teacher residents ensures that a diverse group of students achieve their potential as accomplished learners, thoughtful citizens, and imaginative and inquisitive problem solvers through a demanding, inquiry-based curriculum. The defining characteristic of the school is a professional learning community focused on a progressive, constructivist approach to teaching and learning based on the research on how the brain works and how children learn. The school is organized to meet two related, mutually reinforcing primary goals: to provide an excellent education for students, and to provide excellent teacher preparation and professional development for new teachers and teacher leaders. The school implements the philosophy and instructional methodology of center for inspired teaching. Center for inspired teaching is a district of columbia based educational organization that has served dc's teachers and students since 1995, with the goal of ensuring that teachers make the most of children's innate desire to learn. The school is a leader in improving the way…
$12,811,619 spent$13,930,006 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,811,619.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.1M to $20M (+117%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 8% · 2021 7% · 2022 10% · 2023 4% · 2024 9% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sundai Riggins
Executive director
Board chair
Michelle Lerner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $31k → $66k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC 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
INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
52% of INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,691 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($66,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $157,691 in grants to INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSPIRED TEACHING DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL 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 5 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