New Jersey · Nonprofit
PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS
PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,068 to it, the largest being CAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INC ($325,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $753k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $384k
- Net assets
- $284k
What Parents for Great Camden Schools does
Mission
The mission of Parents for Great Camden Schools (pgcs) is to empower, mobilize and strengthen the voice of every new jersey parent to advocate for all children to receive a high quality education. Pgcs has emerged as the parent support and advocacy group in an education ecosystem with a variety of autonomous public schools including district, renaissance and charter schools. Our work in camden meets a critical need - ensuring parents in camden have the necessary support to access high quality education opportunities, as well as, a mechanism to advocate for great education opportunities for all camden children.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
We work as an organizer, mobilizer and navigator, through a campaign style approach, for camden parents to create the conditions for academic success for camden students. Our organizing work builds a community of parents focused on identifying and addressing education priorities. As this foundational parent base is built, our mobilizing work moves parents to act on these priorities. As parents are organizing and mobilizing around improving education in camden, our navigating work provides them with guidance and support to help them find the best schools for their children.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $549k to $190k (−65%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $41k → $343k.
From the IRS filings of PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS’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
PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
100% 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 PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% — 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
85% of PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS: 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 PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS?
- PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,068 to it, the largest being CAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INC ($325,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $384,068 in grants to PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS?
- CAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARENTS FOR GREAT CAMDEN SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 3 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