Alabama · Nonprofit
NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA
NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,130,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($9,425,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What New Schools for Alabama does
Mission
Our mission is to support the growth of excellent public charter schools in alabama to ensure that every child has access to a quality public education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Advocacy : we advocate for the advancement of policy that helps to improve all public schools in alabama. More specifically, we work with policy makers and administrative agencies to ensure that our legislative agenda serves the betterment of the charter school community while bearing in mind the broader needs of all public school students in alabama. Community engagement: we ensure that parents and communities have access to clear information about school quality and the benefits that other options may present. We engage with parents, families, and communities of underserved children to support them to make appropriate school choices, identify school models that fit their families' need, and get involved in their children's education. School support: towards the goal of quality, we support schools through providing technical assistance workshops and individualized support in areas such as talent development, facility acquisition and other academic areas of support. New school development: we identify the highest-performing charter school networks in the nation and actively recruit the best among them to establish new schools in areas of the greatest need. We work to recruit…
$13,511,292 spentof which $10,377,657 as grants$1,323,105 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,511,292.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.2M to $19M (+132%).
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: 2020 90% · 2021 89% · 2022 46% · 2023 56% · 2024 48% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA’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. 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
Tyler Barnett
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Carol W Butler
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $100k → $3.7M.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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 SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 53% · 2023 40% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 64% 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
NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.5M 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 SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA holds deeper cash reserves 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
Government funding NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50.9M on record.
- Department of Education$50.9M
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 NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Nsfa Loan Fund LLC · disregarded
- Nsfa Development I LLC · disregarded
- Alabamians for Public Charter Schools · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA: 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 SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,130,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($9,425,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $19,130,000 in grants to NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 14 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