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NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE
NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,464,500 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($6,169,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $16M
What New York City Center for Charter School Excellence does
Mission
The new york city charter school center is committed to ensuring all of nyc's children have equitable access to a high quality public school education. Charter schools are one of the means through which to achieve that goal. We advocate for laws and policies that enable high quality schooling, foster new school development and growth, provide professional development to charter operators and educators to empower equity, inclusion and student success, engage the charter community on key issues, and educate the public and build community and policymaker support. Charter schools in turn, show us what is possible in public education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the past 21 years, the new york city charter school center, the country's first citywide charter support strategy, has served as a one-stop-shop for ensuring the growth and vitality of nyc's charter sector. Our integrated approach to building a favorable policy environment, solving industry-wide challenges, ensuring quality, growing the movement and providing key supports and services has "cleared the brush," so that charter schools can focus on their core work of educating children. Our work is guided by five strategic priorities:1. Create a favorable public policy environment for charter schools and education reform, in general: we educate and engage communities and influencers on the value of the charter school model, proactively framing the public discussion with research and data as well as pushing back opponents and guiding and coordinating the sector. 2. Empower charter schools to serve all students: through the collaborative for inclusive education, we support nyc charter schools as they seek to equitably recruit, educate and retain all students, including students with disabilities and multilingual learners. 3. Ensure operational excellence and sustainability: we help…
$4,889,085 spentof which $1,500 as grants$3,280,956 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,889,085.
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 $16M to $21M (+36%).
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: 2021 3% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
James Merriman
CEO
Board chair
Emary Aronson
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $950k → $1.5M.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE’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 YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 34% · 2022 46% · 2023 37% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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 YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE?
- NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,464,500 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($6,169,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $12,464,500 in grants to NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,169,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE 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.
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 7 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