Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $250,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($230,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $250k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Passport Academy Charter School does
Mission
The mission of the Passport Academy Charter School ("passport academy") is to prepare college and career ready graduates to thrive in a diverse community through an engaging blended learning experience that supports individual student needs. Passport academy is a blended learning high school that is focused on providing students with a variety of wrap-around services that address non-academic needs and includes a great emphasis on academic achievement. It is committed to empowering students who have dropped out of high school to acquire the academic and life skills needed to earn their high school diploma and succeed in post-secondary education and career opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A charter school that provides quality public education tohigh school students.
$1,764,152 spent$4,101,362 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,764,152.
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 $1.9M to $2.7M (+44%).
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 4% · 2018 2% · 2020 12% · 2021 26% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% · 2024 18% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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
Joseph Oliphant
Principal/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $230k → $0.
From the IRS filings of PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
“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
100% of PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
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.
Against its field
PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL 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 PASSPORT 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $250,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($230,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $250,000 in grants to PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 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