New Jersey · Nonprofit
MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL
MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $471,468 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ($245,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $471k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Marion P Thomas Charter School does
Mission
The charter schools mission is to prepare newarks next generation of children to be intelectually, emotionally, socially and financially responsible citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2024-2025 the charter school had served 1,376 students through its pre-k to 12th grade curriculum and seamless educational experience from crayons to college. During the school year the charter school undertook major initiatives in order for our village to continue to achieve its high levels of excellence by implementing new tier I sel curriculum and school wide supports, implementing tier I academic curriculum with fidelity and activate built in structures to assess and respond to the individual needs of students, and developing principals as instructional leaders. The charter school implemeted the every student succeeds act (essa) and idea programs (for special needs students). These programs were enacted by congress to reauthorize 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. The charter school provided nutritionally balanced, low cost or free meals to children each school day through its breakfast and lunch programs and after care programs. The programs are federally and state funded.
$26,951,335 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,951,335.
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 2021 to 2022, from $18M to $32M (+79%).
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 19% · 2018 25% · 2019 24% · 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 34% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Pastor Vince Rouse
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $160k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MARION P THOMAS 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
MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of MARION P THOMAS 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. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MARION P THOMAS 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Marion P Thomas Charter School · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARION P THOMAS 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 MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL?
- MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $471,468 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ($245,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $471,468 in grants to MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARION P THOMAS CHARTER SCHOOL?
- NEW JERSEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARION P THOMAS 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 5 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