Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($250,500). 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
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $251k
- Net assets
- $11M
What The Goodwill Excel Center Public Charter School does
Mission
The mission of The Goodwill Excel Center Public Charter School (gec) is to transform lives through the attainment of a high school diploma and industry certifications leading to sustainable, living wage careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The goodwill excel center (gec) provides adult learners in washington, dc, with an opportunity to earn a high school diploma. Gec is the first of its kind in the district where students earn their high school diploma and career credentials in addition to the opportunity to earn college credit. Gec fills the gap between traditional high school programs and ged adult education programs. Gec builds on a proven model that was founded in indiana and serves students across the country in over ten states nationally. Gec seeks to provide training and academic support to students who have not yet earned their high school diploma.gec opened in 2016 and in sy 2024-2025 served 438 students. At the end of sy 2025, gec had 724 graduates to date. In addition to core academic programming, gec offers coaching to support students during their journey and builds strong relationships with students to truly provide a holistic approach. Gec also operates a fully licensed child development center in the school, which is operated by the ymca and provides students who have children six weeks old to 3 years old the opportunity to enroll their child too. Gec enrolls students multiple times a year through…
$11,288,190 spentof which $166,407 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,288,190.
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 $10M to $24M (+132%).
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 95% · 2018 89% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER 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. 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
Catherine A Meloy President
& CEO (see sch o page 34)
Board chair
Glen S Howard
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $867k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Davis Memorial Goodwill Industries). These are real filings, and they are not money THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC 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 THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC 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. $251k 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
THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves 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 THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC 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 THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($250,500). 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 THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $250,500 in grants to THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $250,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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