New Jersey · Nonprofit
LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,903,892 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION ($1,698,363). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $-1213168
What Link Community Charter School does
Mission
Link Community Charter School will provide an outstanding elementary and middle school education for learners of all academic abilities by developing the mind, body, and spirit through a strong curriculum, experiential learning, immersion in the arts, and an enduring commitment to core values. This will allow them to be successful in competitive high schools and become responsible and resourceful citizens who give back to others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The charter school provides a full range of educational services appropriate to kindergarten, grades 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8. These services include regular, as well as special education and basic skills instruction. The charter school completed the 2024-2025 school year with an enrollment of 341 students. Next year, the charter school will complete its grade level expansion as it continues working towards full enrollment. By every indicator, the charter school is a successful young charter school with great promise for the future. With a focus on core values, a strong academic program, and vibrant enrichment opportunities, the charter school is armed with a strong board, experienced staff, a well-developed mission, and a 56 year legacy of service to newark and the surrounding cities.
$4,758,937 spent$6,512,667 earned by the program78% of program spendingThe charter school implemented the every student succeeds act (essa) and the idea programs. These programs were enacted by congress to preauthorize the elementary and secondary education act with major focus on providing all children with fair, equal and significant opportunity to have a high quality education through enrichment activities.
$943,538 spent16% of program spendingThe charter school provided nutritionally balanced, low cost or free meals to students each school day through its breakfast and lunch programs. The programs are federally and state assisted.
$375,381 spent$23,924 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,077,856.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.5M to $4.2M (+175%).
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 10% · 2018 23% · 2019 24% · 2020 23% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 34% · 2024 31% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Board chair
Richard S Marshall
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $379k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 LINK 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
LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
99% of LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.0M on record.
- STATE AID$7.6M
- FEDERAL$7.3M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$623
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LINK 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINK 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 LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,903,892 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION ($1,698,363). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,903,892 in grants to LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- NEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,698,363 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINK 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 6 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