New Jersey · Nonprofit
JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,594 to it, the largest being I AM A LEADER FOUNDATION ($17,523). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Jersey City Community Charter School does
Mission
The mission of Jersey City Community Charter School (jcccs) is to provide each student with innovative learning experiences that develop positive intellectual, social, and physical outcomes. Jcccs is focused on promoting self-directed, lifelong learning skills; and facilitates the student's ability to make responsible decisions. Further, jcccs is committed to provide a learning environment that addresses the full range of student's alternative learning styles. The commitment includes employing the new jersey core curriculum content standards and achieving high academic standards for all students. The school will measure student success by assessing skills in use and in context, as well as by employing standardized testing. The foundation of the plan for success is a school- home-community partnership to increase parental involvement and participation in promoting the social, emotional and cognitive growth for children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The charter school ensures that its curriculum is aligned to state standards. Expeditionary learning is implemented in english language arts literacy (ela) in grades k-8. Professional development participation is conducted throughout the school year and attendance is required for instructional staff. Additionally in grades k-3, we will continue the implementation of the children's literacy initiative placing continued emphasis on core practices - literacy environment - physical elements, intentional read aloud, message time plus, and the workshop model. In preparation for njsla administration, students receive additional support with technology and the ela curriculum. A new mathematics series entitled, envisionmath 2.0 and digits 2015 on realize were implemented in grades k-8. Professional development activities will be conducted this summer and continued throughout the school year. Staff attendance and participation is required. In preparation for the parcc administration, students will receive additional support with technology and the math curriculum. The interactive science for grades k-8 is based on best practices from academic research and alignment to next generation…
$11,354,070 spent$16,232,293 earned by the program89% of program spendingJcccs also received federal funds for programs under the no child left behind (nclb) which was enacted in 2002 which reauthorized the elementary and secondary education act. Nclb program activities implemented at jcccs during fiscal year 2022 were consistent with objectives of the nclb focusing on providing children with a fair, equal and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education through enrichment activities.
$929,264 spent7% of program spendingAs a recipient of federal and state assistance under the child nutrition programs, nutritious meals and snacks were provided to children throughout the school year. The charter school also had after school program providing children with a safe environment, at the same time assisting them with homework, while working parents needed the extended hours.
$454,897 spent$205,959 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,738,231.
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 2023 to 2024, from $17M to $24M (+43%).
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 31% · 2018 37% · 2019 31% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% · 2024 18% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY 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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $46.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY 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
JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
29% 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 JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin 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 JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,594 to it, the largest being I AM A LEADER FOUNDATION ($17,523). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $24,594 in grants to JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- I AM A LEADER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,523 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 3 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