Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney
Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,701 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH ($5,656). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $-1605651
What Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney does
Mission
Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney believes that working together with parents and the community stakeholders creates an ideal environment in which students have the opportunity to strive for academic excellence in all content areas, explore a diverse curriculum, prepare to succeed in a global environment, provide service to a growing community, foster positive healthy adult and child relationships, participate in character education, and develop a respect for others through exemplary mentorship, experience cooperative educational communities in all content areas from fine arts to technology, and develop students into lifelong learners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operate a charter school focusing on the educational needs of students who are at risk of failing in a traditional environment. The charter school is a part of the commonwealth of pennsylvania public school system.
$13,791,448 spent$13,965,185 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,791,448.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $6.4M to $9.3M (+46%).
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: 2018 14% · 2019 14% · 2020 13% · 2021 19% · 2022 27% · 2023 40% · 2024 18% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Dr Margery Covello
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $4k.
From the IRS filings of Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney’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
Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
58% 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 Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 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
Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney's revenue grew 52% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney: 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 Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney?
- Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,701 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH ($5,656). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,701 in grants to Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney.
- Who is the largest funder of Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney?
- SHARE OUR STRENGTH is the largest funder on record, with $5,656 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney 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.
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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 2018–2025), 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