New York · Nonprofit
PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,456,276 to it, the largest being CULLEN FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ($579,040). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Persistence Preparatory Academy Charter School does
Mission
Through rigorous academics, high-quality instruction and leadership development, Persistence Preparatory Academy Charter School ensures that all k - 8 scholars are firmly on the path to succeed within a four-year college and create positive change within their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational instruction - providing high-quality instruction for scholars from kindergarten to eighth grade to ensure that our scholars can reach ambitious goals and be firmly on the path to the four year college of their choice
$5,051,984 spent$6,311,208 earned by the program84% of program spendingSpecial education - students with special needs
$390,423 spent$572,685 earned by the program6% of program spendingOther programs - include afterschool/extended day program and school counselor/behavioral specialist services offered to all students
$585,301 spent$57,302 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,027,708.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $8.6M (+414%).
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: 2018 49% · 2019 10% · 2020 12% · 2021 17% · 2022 10% · 2023 14% · 2024 13% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Kevin Celniker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $75k → $367k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 85% · 2022 75% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
85% of PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY 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 PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,456,276 to it, the largest being CULLEN FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ($579,040). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,456,276 in grants to PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- CULLEN FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $579,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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