Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY
MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $269,115 to it, the largest being MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ($269,115). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $269k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Mastery Charter School - Smedley Elementary does
Mission
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mastery schools integrates educational best practices and effective management to drive student achievement. Our academic staff is outstanding and relentlessly committed to student achievement and continually improve their craft through highly-effective professional development, coaching, and collaborative support. Instruction is grounded by a common pedagogical vision and guided by rigorous standards-based curricula. We align assessments to clear and meaningful objectives and use assessment data to target areas of need.Mastery Charter School - Smedley Elementary serves students in grades k-6.
$14,050,380 spent$14,950,973 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,050,380.
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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $15M (+32%).
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 13% · 2018 15% · 2019 14% · 2020 17% · 2021 15% · 2022 27% · 2023 30% · 2024 23% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $33k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $219k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mastery Charter High School). These are real filings, and they are not money MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY raised.
From the IRS filings of MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
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
MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY's revenue grew 63% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Mastery Charter School - Thomas Campus · exempt
- Mastery Charter School - Shoemaker Campus · exempt
- Mastery Charter School - Pickett Campus · exempt
- Frederick Douglass Mastery Charter School · exempt
- Mastery Charter School - Harrity Elementary · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY?
- MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $269,115 to it, the largest being MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ($269,115). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $269,115 in grants to MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY?
- MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $269,115 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - SMEDLEY ELEMENTARY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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