Minnesota · Nonprofit
NEW CENTURY SCHOOL
NEW CENTURY SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,032 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $330k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What New Century School does
Mission
Provide a high-quality education to nurture and inspire a community of learners through an innovative, holistic approach to education that embeds science and technology
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
New Century School (ncs) is a public stem charter school located in the midway area of st. Paul, minnesota with a second site located in bloomington, minnesota. The school integrates a stem based curriculum that allows students to develop skills for the 21st century. Our school's inquiry based learning model and multidisciplinary instructional approach provides the foundation for our rigorous curriculum. New Century School is aspirational to its very bedrock: built upon the values of equity of opportunity and access, it aspires to fulfill the hope and promise of the community it serves. Ncs implements various quality programs that provide a foundation for our students to thrive and prepare them for college and careers. Ncs creates instructional plans, policies, practices, and structures that support quality teaching and learning. Some of our programs include the following: rigorous academic programs, science, technology, engineering and math (stem) programs, college & career preparation, english language learning (ell), service learning, and extended day programs. This past year represented the eighth full your of operation as a mn public charter school, with approximately 952…
$14,391,068 spent$240,328 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,391,068.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $7.6M to $14M (+82%).
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: 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 97% · 2021 91% · 2022 99% · 2023 93% · 2024 97% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NEW CENTURY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 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.
Board chair
Jessica Tallman
Board chair/teacher
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $120k → $30k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 NEW CENTURY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
NEW CENTURY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 NEW CENTURY SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 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
91% of NEW CENTURY SCHOOL'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k 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
NEW CENTURY SCHOOL has grown faster 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 NEW CENTURY 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW CENTURY 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 NEW CENTURY SCHOOL?
- NEW CENTURY SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,032 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW CENTURY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $330,032 in grants to NEW CENTURY SCHOOL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW CENTURY SCHOOL?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW CENTURY SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2018–2025), 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