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RISE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL

RISE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.7M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$500
Net assets
$-7942039
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Rise Preparatory Charter School does

Mission

Provide our scholars with the tools necessary to persevere through the hard work and recognize their strengths in the process.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide our scholars with the tools necessary to persevere through the hard work and recognize their strengths in the process.

    $9,656,650 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,656,650.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 113 ($3.3M) Expenses 136 ($3.5M) Net assets 76 ($769k)2020 Revenue 279 ($8.0M) Expenses 380 ($9.8M) Net assets -53 ($-533244)2021 Revenue 305 ($8.8M) Expenses 314 ($8.1M) Net assets 16 ($166k)2022 Revenue 376 ($11M) Expenses 490 ($13M) Net assets -355 ($-3599362)2023 Revenue 442 ($13M) Expenses 435 ($11M) Net assets -205 ($-2076953)2024 Revenue 250 ($7.2M) Expenses 439 ($11M) Net assets -837 ($-8482028)2025 Revenue 268 ($7.7M) Expenses 278 ($7.2M) Net assets -784 ($-7942039)
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Revenue (268)Expenses (278)Net assets (-784)

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 $6.7M to $20M (+193%).

$3.2M
$4.6M
$7.9M
$6.7M
$20M
$21M
$18M
$17M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 95% · 2018 99% · 2020 95% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 16% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$304k
’17
−$244k
’18
−$1.8M
’20
$699k
’21
−$1.8M
’22
$1.5M
’23
−$4.1M
’24
$540k
’25
8.9
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

Lara Sterling

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed511710101043
Joined·+8·+5+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·2·20071
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of RISE PREPARATORY 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

RISE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state in all.

NY

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

Organizations like RISE PREPARATORY 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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RISE PREPARATORY 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 RISE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
RISE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RISE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to RISE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Who is the largest funder of RISE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RISE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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