Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Memphis Street Academy Charter School
Memphis Street Academy Charter School (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,544 to it, the largest being Elevate 215 ($80,544). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Memphis Street Academy Charter School does
Mission
The mission of Memphis Street Academy Charter School is to enhance support and promote the critical thinking and the problem-solving skills of its school-age learners as they master and exceed pennsylvania and national education standards.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Msa will transform the learning environment for its scholars in grades 5 through 8 - who not only reside in the catchment area of the school, but who also comprise a diverse learning body from all over the city of philadelphia, and from all ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds.
$9,309,234 spent$9,801,091 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,309,234.
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 2019 to 2020, from $17M to $15M (−13%).
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 19% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2022 22% · 2023 28% · 2024 31% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of Memphis Street Academy Charter School’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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.
Chief executive
Steven M Bilski
CEO/Principal
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Memphis Street Academy 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Memphis Street Academy Charter School's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
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
Memphis Street Academy Charter School runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 Memphis Street Academy 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Memphis Street Academy 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 Memphis Street Academy Charter School?
- Memphis Street Academy Charter School (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,544 to it, the largest being Elevate 215 ($80,544). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Memphis Street Academy Charter School have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $80,544 in grants to Memphis Street Academy Charter School.
- Who is the largest funder of Memphis Street Academy Charter School?
- Elevate 215 is the largest funder on record, with $80,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Memphis Street Academy Charter School 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