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MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL

MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,986 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($75,822). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$5.1M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$243k
Net assets
$394k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Magellan Charter School does

Mission

The mission of the Magellan Charter School is to provide a challenging intellectual journey for highly motivated students in grades 3-8.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing quality public education as a charter school

    $4,245,517 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,245,517.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($493k)2018 Revenue 104 ($3.7M) Expenses 104 ($3.7M) Net assets 90 ($446k)2019 Revenue 110 ($3.9M) Expenses 109 ($3.9M) Net assets 105 ($515k)2020 Revenue 117 ($4.2M) Expenses 110 ($3.9M) Net assets 156 ($769k)2021 Revenue 115 ($4.1M) Expenses 116 ($4.1M) Net assets 152 ($751k)2022 Revenue 128 ($4.6M) Expenses 130 ($4.7M) Net assets 135 ($666k)2023 Revenue 130 ($4.6M) Expenses 129 ($4.6M) Net assets 145 ($716k)2024 Revenue 137 ($4.9M) Expenses 135 ($4.8M) Net assets 160 ($791k)2025 Revenue 144 ($5.1M) Expenses 155 ($5.5M) Net assets 80 ($394k)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (155)Net assets (80)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $900k (−30%).

$825k
$791k
$895k
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$900k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 97% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 91% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
−$877
’18
$69k
’19
$253k
’20
−$18k
’21
−$85k
’22
$50k
’23
$75k
’24
−$397k
’25
1.9
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.

Board chair

Jim Nowak

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed13111091181088
Joined·+0+0+0+3+4+3+1+0
No longer listed·21117130
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $28k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 MAGELLAN 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

MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL.

31%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 46% · 2022 66% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

33% of MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

65% of MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $86k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

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MA
CA
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL's revenue grew 44% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MAGELLAN 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Magellan Education Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL?
MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,986 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($75,822). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $242,986 in grants to MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 10 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