Delaware · Nonprofit
POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL
POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $162 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($162). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $162
- Net assets
- $-3557420
What Positive Outcomes Charter School does
Mission
State of delaware chartered school. The school's mission is to provide opportunity for students at risk to learn in a safe, caring, and respectful environment, where individuality is valued and individual needs are addressed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Positive Outcomes Charter School is a public school established under a charter granted by the state of delaware department of education and the delaware state board of education pursuant to title 14, chapter 5 of the delaware code. The mission of the charter school is to provide opportunity for students at risk to learn in a safe, caring, and respectful environment. The total charter school enrollment for the current fiscal year is 124 students.
$3,386,098 spent$657,146 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,386,098.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.5M to $7.9M (+23%).
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 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 94% · 2022 93% · 2023 93% · 2024 92% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Edward J Emmett Jr
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $31 → $48.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 POSITIVE OUTCOMES 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 POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $162 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves 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 POSITIVE OUTCOMES 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POSITIVE OUTCOMES 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 POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL?
- POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $162 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($162). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $162 in grants to POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $162 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 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