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MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY

MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,099 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($65,378). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$14M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$161k
Net assets
$11M
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Milkyway Education Center Inc Pioneer Academy does

Mission

Pioneer academy fosters an inclusive environment, with state-of-the-art facilities, for students to grow in knowledge through a rigorous curriculum grounded in ethical principles and multicultural awareness, inspired by engaging faculty.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of the organization is to provide private education services for elementary and high school children as well as esl classes for adults.

    $9,904,520 spentof which $976,191 as grants$13,349,330 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,904,520.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.0M) Expenses 100 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($9.4M)2018 Revenue 133 ($7.9M) Expenses 119 ($7.5M) Net assets 104 ($9.7M)2019 Revenue 101 ($6.0M) Expenses 99 ($6.2M) Net assets 100 ($9.3M)2020 Revenue 110 ($6.5M) Expenses 101 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($9.4M)2021 Revenue 111 ($6.6M) Expenses 99 ($6.2M) Net assets 102 ($9.6M)2022 Revenue 144 ($8.6M) Expenses 123 ($7.7M) Net assets 110 ($10M)2023 Revenue 178 ($11M) Expenses 158 ($9.9M) Net assets 118 ($11M)2024 Revenue 210 ($13M) Expenses 182 ($11M) Net assets 122 ($11M)2025 Revenue 234 ($14M) Expenses 217 ($14M) Net assets 121 ($11M)
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Revenue (234)Expenses (217)Net assets (121)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $20M to $23M (+15%).

$17M
$17M
$17M
$17M
$17M
$20M
$23M
$24M
$25M
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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: 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$308k
’17
$444k
’18
−$194k
’19
$206k
’20
$410k
’21
$858k
’22
$722k
’23
$1.1M
’24
$337k
’25
3.5
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.

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Listed666689111111
Joined·+3+2+0+3+1+2+0+1
No longer listed·32010001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $28k → $29k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY’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

MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

98% 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 MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY.

41%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 85% · 2023 73% — 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.

Where its funders are

89% of MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states.

NY
NJ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Government funding MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $400k on record.

State$400k
21
25
Top programs
  • FEDERAL$400k

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 MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY?
MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY (New Jersey) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,099 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($65,378). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $161,099 in grants to MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $65,378 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILKYWAY EDUCATION CENTER INC PIONEER ACADEMY 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