Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,442,936 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($26,750,942). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $65M
- Net assets
- $25M
What National Alliance for Public Charter Schools does
Mission
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is the leading national nonprofit organization committed for advancing the charter school movement. Our mission is to lead public education to unprecedented levels of academic achievement for all students by fostering a strong charter sector.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Federal and state advocacy: napcs works for federal policies that support the growth and stability of high-performing charter schools by educating congressional members, staff and federal agencies about how policy can best support high-quality public charter school growth. In particular, napcs seeks to grow the base of support for public charter schools and napcs in washington dc; maintain or increase federal funding where possible for public charter schools; and protect the autonomy of and ensure fair treatment of public charter schools within federal funding streams, federal regulations, and non-regulatory guidance.
$3,983,664 spentof which $160,000 as grants28% of program spendingNational charter schools conference: napcs convened the national charter schools conference in july 2024. More than 3,500 attendees from across the country gathered to learn and promote promising practices, celebrate our successes, and ignite the next level of innovation. The national charter schools conference is napcs' primary "direct to schools" channel and supports its ability to deepen the evidence base.
$3,782,939 spentof which $130,000 as grants$3,626,156 earned by the program27% of program spendingCommunications and research: napcs has continued to deliver evidence based information and messages by proactively working with media, and by disseminating its issues briefs, which covers a wide range of issues critical to the sector. Napcs also continues to collect a significant amount of data on the nation's charter schools. The public charter school dashboard is the most comprehensive source of national data on charter schools, and is consulted regularly by media, researchers, and policy makers.
$3,364,524 spentof which $25,000 as grants$357,312 earned by the program24% of program spendingPolicy
$1,511,403 spentof which $10,000 as grants11% of program spendingLegal
$914,050 spentof which $355,360 as grants6% of program spendingData and research
$682,684 spentof which $10,000 as grants5% of program spendingPartnerships
$11,838 spent0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,251,102.
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 $22M to $33M (+50%).
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 0% · 2018 2% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS’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. 4 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.
Board chair
Rick Cruz
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $14M.
14 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $316k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Charter Schools Association). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. 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
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 37% · 2019 40% · 2020 68% · 2021 54% · 2022 39% · 2023 56% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.2M on record.
- Department of Education$4.5M
- Department of Agriculture$664k
- Department of Defense$7k
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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charter Schools Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,442,936 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($26,750,942). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $65,442,936 in grants to NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $26,750,942 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 58 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