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PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC

PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,750 to it, the largest being FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ($151,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$24k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$216k
Net assets
$572k
1/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Patterson Park Public Charter School Fund Inc does

Mission

Support for 501(c)(3) organization

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide support for bluebird education network, inc

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($3k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($554k)2018 Revenue 99 ($3k) Expenses 50 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($552k)2019 Revenue 385 ($11k) Expenses 50 ($5k) Net assets 104 ($577k)2020 Revenue 3663 ($101k) Expenses 3804 ($380k) Net assets 55 ($306k)2021 Revenue 3738 ($103k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 74 ($408k)2022 Revenue 1 ($41) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 74 ($408k)2023 Revenue 4037 ($111k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 94 ($519k)2024 Revenue 1014 ($28k) Expenses 2 ($175) Net assets 99 ($547k)2025 Revenue 885 ($24k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 103 ($572k)
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Revenue (885)Expenses (0)Net assets (103)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 $582k to $306k (−47%).

$564k
$567k
$582k
$306k
$408k
$408k
$519k
$547k
$572k
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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

0% of PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
−$2k
’18
$6k
’19
−$279k
’20
$103k
’21
$41
’22
$111k
’23
$28k
’24
$24k
’25
28207
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.

Chief executive

Jane Lindenfelser

Executive director

Board chair

Pat Murrary

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed555666666
Joined·+0+0+2+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·00100010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $52k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'23
total
Baltimore Civic Fund Incunclassified
$52k
funders
1
1
1
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND 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

PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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 PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC.

70%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 100% · 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

100% of PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’23
Maryland out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND 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 Maryland

Bluebird Education Network Inc86%College Park Academy Inc73%Paltown Development Foundation73%22beacon Property Corporation73%The Park School of Baltimore Inc73%Parks and People Inc72%Association for Nature-Based Education Inc71%22beacon Inc71%

Nationally

Bluebird Education Network Inc86%Patterson School Foundation Inc78%Charter Board Partners D/B/A Education Board Partners77%Patten Education Foundation77%Pattison's Academy for Comprehensive Edu Cation76%Blank Park Endowment Corporation75%The Paterson Education Foundation Inc75%Oak Park Education Foundation Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp75%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bluebird Education Network Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC: 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 PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC?
PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,750 to it, the largest being FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ($151,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $215,750 in grants to PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC?
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $151,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 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