New York · Nonprofit
PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES
PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,756,760 to it, the largest being VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC ($3,289,971). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Public Prep Charter School Academies does
Mission
Our mission is simple: we aim to guide children to realize their inherent greatness. From a very young age, we reinforce to our scholars that they are agents of change. We guide scholars to embody the values of scholarship, excellence, community, and integrity as they develop their abilities to read, write, listen, speak, create, and think critically across disciplines. With a particular focus on science, the arts, and math, we prepare them to navigate and contribute meaningfully to an increasingly complex world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Expenditures towards implementation and operation of public charter schools in new york. Expenses cover: salaries and benefits for instructional and administrative employees, classroom and office supplies, recruitment of students and staff, extensive professional development, books, furniture, contracted educational services, information technologies, equipment rental and depreciation, insurance, legal expenses, consultants, local travel and miscellaneous expenses related to the successful operation of the schools.
$46,301,882 spent$30,275,919 earned by the program97% of program spendingExpenditures towards implementation and operation of 2 pre-k programs in new york.
$1,514,985 spent$1,202,035 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $47,816,867.
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 2024 to 2025, from $118M to $232M (+96%).
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 8% · 2018 9% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 23% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% · 2024 27% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
R Boykin Curry
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $467k → $831k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Public Preparatory Network Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES raised.
From the IRS filings of PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES’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
PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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 PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 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
88% of PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES'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. 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
PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Public Prep Academies Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES: 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 PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES?
- PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,756,760 to it, the largest being VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC ($3,289,971). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,756,760 in grants to PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES?
- VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,289,971 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC PREP CHARTER SCHOOL ACADEMIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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