Minnesota · Nonprofit
ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL
ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,524 to it, the largest being CHARTER SCHOOL PROPERTY II INC ($637,928). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $744k
- Net assets
- $-2966604
What St Paul City School does
Mission
St. Paul city school (spcs) is a pre k-12 community school committed to serving the whole student and family through an equity-minded approach. Through rigorous academics, culturally responsive teaching, and a supportive environment, we prepare our students to thrive in college, careers, and life while driving positive change in the world around them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
St. Paul city school is a public charter school that provides education to over 590 students from grades pre k-12.
$13,021,254 spent$117,454 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,021,254.
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 $6.3M to $17M (+172%).
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 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% · 2024 97% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Benjamin Magras
Executive director (beg july 2024)
Board chair
Michelle Higgins
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $37k → $11k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ST PAUL CITY 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
ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
100% of ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ST PAUL CITY 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Charter School Property Inc · exempt
- Charter School Property II Inc · exempt
- Doing Amazing Magic From Nothing · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST PAUL CITY 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 ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL?
- ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,524 to it, the largest being CHARTER SCHOOL PROPERTY II INC ($637,928). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $743,524 in grants to ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL?
- CHARTER SCHOOL PROPERTY II INC is the largest funder on record, with $637,928 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 9 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