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PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL

PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,258 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($50,258). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$65M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$105M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School does

Mission

To provide an academically challenging, knowledge-based curriculum, individually designed for each child's needs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Palcs is an independent charter school who provides education with unique support to facilitate this goal. The school has approximately 3,310 students enrolled at the end of the year.

    $43,421,350 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,421,350.

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 ($35M) Expenses 100 ($30M) Net assets -4884 ($-31795046)2018 Revenue 118 ($42M) Expenses 112 ($33M) Net assets -3830 ($-24933339)2019 Revenue 134 ($47M) Expenses 120 ($36M) Net assets -2078 ($-13529585)2020 Revenue 146 ($51M) Expenses 125 ($37M) Net assets 100 ($651k)2021 Revenue 232 ($82M) Expenses 147 ($44M) Net assets 5928 ($39M)2022 Revenue 187 ($66M) Expenses 167 ($49M) Net assets 12635 ($82M)2023 Revenue 180 ($63M) Expenses 179 ($53M) Net assets 14761 ($96M)2024 Revenue 199 ($70M) Expenses 209 ($62M) Net assets 15986 ($104M)2025 Revenue 185 ($65M) Expenses 215 ($64M) Net assets 16162 ($105M)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (215)Net assets (16162)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 2020 to 2021, from $46M to $79M (+73%).

$18M
$24M
$32M
$46M
$79M
$91M
$103M
$115M
$114M
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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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.5M
’17
$8.3M
’18
$11M
’19
$14M
’20
$38M
’21
$16M
’22
$10M
’23
$8.0M
’24
$1.1M
’25
9.5
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

Dan Truitt

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed898111014151216
Joined·+4+1+3+0+4+5+5+7
No longer listed·32010483
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $38k → $12k.

Funder
'18
'19
total
Drexel Universityunclassified
$50k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL’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.

Where its funders are

100% of PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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

’18
’19
Pennsylvania 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

PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve9.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP 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 PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL?
PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,258 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($50,258). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,258 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL?
DREXEL UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $50,258 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
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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 1 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