Minnesota · Nonprofit
Kato Public Charter School
Kato Public Charter School (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,200 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($3,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Kato Public Charter School runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mankato Area Foundationlocal
- Prairiecare Fundportfolio match
- Greater Mankato Area United Way Inclocal
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.
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 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% · 2024 99% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Kato Public Charter School’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Kato 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.
Where its funders are
Kato Public Charter School draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Mankato Area FoundationlocalMN · funds 83 organizations near you
- Prairiecare Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Mankato Area United Way InclocalMN · funds 27 organizations near you
- Great Mn Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Institute for Excellence in Teachingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington State Charter Schools Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National School Choice Awareness Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GenYOUTH Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas B Fordham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Kato Public Charter School
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kato Public 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Kato Public Charter School?
- Kato Public Charter School (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,200 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($3,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kato Public Charter School have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,200 in grants to Kato Public Charter School.
- Who is the largest funder of Kato Public Charter School?
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is the largest funder on record, with $3,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kato Public Charter School find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing