New York · Nonprofit
NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,267 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($407,638). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $418k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What New Heights Academy Charter School does
Mission
New heights is a product of and exists to serve the students of washington heights, inwood, and harlem. We opened in 2006 as the very first charter school in our district. Our school was founded by a team of local educators who came together with the specific intent to provide the community they served and loved with an excellent educational option. We are an independent public charter school, and we are not affiliated with any management organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The New Heights Academy Charter School family embodies the core values of perseverance, responsibility, integrity, discipline, and enthusiasm. The school culture is characterized by transparent communication, trust in community members, and an appreciation for diversity of perspectives. New heights scholars are engaged in a rigorous, college preparatory curriculum which emphasizes critical thinking, curiosity, competence, confidence, and control. Since our opening, we have grown to serve 648 students in grades 5-12 and achieved an average annual graduation rate that exceeds the rest of the city. New heights provides our students with an academically rigorous education that will prepare them to pursue whatevereducational and professional path they choose.
$14,124,661 spent$13,535,628 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,124,661.
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 $9.8M to $36M (+266%).
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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 6% · 2021 21% · 2022 19% · 2023 6% · 2024 9% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $158k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HEIGHTS 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.
How concentrated its funding is
NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 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
NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $529 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW HEIGHTS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,267 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($407,638). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $418,267 in grants to NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $407,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 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