Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Propel Charter School-McKeesport
Propel Charter School-McKeesport (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,002 to it, the largest being SOLOMON MENDEL & SYLVIA CHARITABLE TRUST ($27,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Propel Charter School-McKeesport does
Mission
Charter school for students in grades Kindergarten through Eighth. Propels mission is to catalyze the transformation of public education so that all children have access.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Propel Charter School McKeesport is a charter school granted by a public school district to serve students in the area.
$6,436,069 spent$5,739,833 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,436,069.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.6M to $8.6M (+87%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 24% · 2024 15% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Propel Charter School-McKeesport’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Tina Chekan
Superintendent, CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $23k → $28k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $380k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Propel Schools Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Propel Charter School-McKeesport raised.
From the IRS filings of Propel Charter School-McKeesport’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
Propel Charter School-McKeesport leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2021 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Propel Charter School-McKeesport's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Propel Charter School-McKeesport runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 Propel Charter School-McKeesport
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Propel Schools Inc · exempt
- Propel Charter School - East · exempt
- Propel Charter School - Montour · exempt
- Propel Charter School - Sunrise · exempt
- Propel Charter School-Pitcairn · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Propel Charter School-McKeesport: 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 Propel Charter School-McKeesport?
- Propel Charter School-McKeesport (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,002 to it, the largest being SOLOMON MENDEL & SYLVIA CHARITABLE TRUST ($27,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Propel Charter School-McKeesport have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,002 in grants to Propel Charter School-McKeesport, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Propel Charter School-McKeesport?
- SOLOMON MENDEL & SYLVIA CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $27,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Propel Charter School-McKeesport 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