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Palmetto Charter School Inc

Palmetto Charter School Inc (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,872 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($169,803). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$5.5M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$181k
Net assets
$2.6M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Palmetto Charter School Inc does

Mission

The mission of the school is to create a superior learning environment founded upon the shared values of hard work, honor, self-discipline,and community and parental involvement, with the purpose of preparing students for academic and social success, in high school and beyond.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Grades K-8 ClassroomsPalmetto Charter School offers a rigorous academic program that is designed to prepare students for success in Honors and other Advanced Level classes at the high school level. Palmetto Charter school provides instruction for grades K-8.Palmetto Charter School continues to be among the highest test scores in thecounty. In addition, Palmetto Charter has a robust athletic program for ourmiddle school students and is consistently a top performer in our league, withchampionships in football, cross country, basketball and volleyball. OurJunior Beta Club excelled at the regional and national level this yearreceiving many various awards and recognition.

    $4,312,493 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,312,493.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 106 ($3.0M) Expenses 103 ($2.6M) Net assets 135 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 118 ($3.3M) Expenses 115 ($2.9M) Net assets 172 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 124 ($3.4M) Expenses 125 ($3.1M) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 125 ($3.5M) Expenses 135 ($3.4M) Net assets 126 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 128 ($3.6M) Expenses 135 ($3.4M) Net assets 141 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 194 ($5.4M) Expenses 177 ($4.4M) Net assets 232 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 189 ($5.3M) Expenses 215 ($5.4M) Net assets 225 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 198 ($5.5M) Expenses 208 ($5.2M) Net assets 241 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (198)Expenses (208)Net assets (241)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $4.6M to $7.7M (+67%).

$4.1M
$4.3M
$4.6M
$7.7M
$7.8M
$9.4M
$12M
$12M
$12M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 19% · 2024 9% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

12% of Palmetto Charter School Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$287k
’17
$379k
’18
$407k
’19
$316k
’20
$119k
’21
$180k
’22
$996k
’23
−$88k
’24
$323k
’25
5.2
months of
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

Mike Mears

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed118787776
Joined···+0+1+2+2+2+0
No longer listed···103221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $82k → $1k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
2
2
2
2
1
1

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Palmetto Charter School Inc’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

Palmetto Charter School Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 Palmetto Charter School Inc.

94%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2020 99% · 2021 94% · 2022 99% · 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

99% of Palmetto Charter School Inc'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 1 state.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $179k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Palmetto Charter School Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve5.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Palmetto Charter School Inc

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Palmetto Charter School Inc?
Palmetto Charter School Inc (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,872 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($169,803). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Palmetto Charter School Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $180,872 in grants to Palmetto Charter School Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Palmetto Charter School Inc?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $169,803 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Palmetto Charter School Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 4 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