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MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY
MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,337 to it, the largest being GIRARD FOUNDATION ($24,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Mindset Charter Schools Inc Dba School for Entrepreneurship and Technology does
Mission
We prepare students to thrive in a complex, changing world.we combine strong academics with student agency, meaningful relationships, and real-world learning to develop curiosity, resilience, and responsibility. (continued on schedule o)our graduates leave with the skills, judgment, and self-awareness needed to navigate uncertainty, pursue purpose, and contribute thoughtfully to their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Set high school is a twice-awarded, wasc-accredited, tuition-free public charter high school in san diego. We offer an intellectually rigorous environment that brings out students' talents and personalities, enabling the next generation of makers, business leaders and innovators, big thinkers and big dream chasers.through an immersive education that combines the highest academic standards and a focus on entrepreneurship and technology, set teaches the practical skills and cultivates the emotional intelligence necessary to launch the next generation of business and social leaders. Set inspires students to rewrite the traditional idea of success and to lead a new generation of socially responsible trailblazers who will shape the way we work and live.
$3,198,273 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,198,273.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $4.2M (+241%).
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 99% · 2019 94% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 92% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Dr Neil Mccurdy
Executive director
Board chair
Gina Darvis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $389.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY’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
MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
79% of MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY's revenue grew 51% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Set Parent Association Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY: 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 MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY?
- MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,337 to it, the largest being GIRARD FOUNDATION ($24,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $39,337 in grants to MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY?
- GIRARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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