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LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL

LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$14M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$2.3M
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Lincoln Charter School does

Mission

To provide a world class education to all students.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The charter school is dedicated to promoting a positive culture and to focus on high standards of achievement for all students who attend the school.

    $7,979,350 spent$13,848,096 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,979,350.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($9.9M) Net assets -1769 ($-6452639)2020 Revenue 99 ($11M) Expenses 106 ($10M) Net assets -1640 ($-5982437)2021 Revenue 102 ($11M) Expenses 112 ($11M) Net assets -1652 ($-6026328)2022 Revenue 121 ($13M) Expenses 109 ($11M) Net assets -1007 ($-3673275)2023 Revenue 142 ($15M) Expenses 114 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($365k)2024 Revenue 128 ($14M) Expenses 120 ($12M) Net assets 639 ($2.3M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (128)Expenses (120)Net assets (639)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 $11M to $14M (+26%).

$9.7M
$9.6M
$11M
$14M
$16M
$17M
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$916k
’19
$179k
’20
−$44k
’21
$2.3M
’22
$4.0M
’23
$2.0M
’24
10
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

Rob Catten

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

201920202021202220232024
Listed7879910
Joined·+1+0+4+3+5
No longer listed·01234
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like LINCOLN 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 Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 33%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL?
LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $0 in grants to LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL.
Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL?
YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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