Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,460 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $217k
- Net assets
- $22M
What The Maya Angelou Public Charter School does
Mission
To create learning communities in lower income urban areas where all students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional schools, can reach their potential and prepare for college, career and a lifetime of success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary mission of The Maya Angelou Public Charter School is to create learning communities in lower income urban areas where all students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional schools, can reach their potential and prepare for college, career, and a lifetime of success. At maya angelou, students develop the academic, social, and employment skills they need to build rewarding lives and promote positive change. The maya angelou public charter high school and the young adult learning center provide a comprehensive education in a non-traditional setting to all students including those who have not been successful in their educational experiences. This is achieved through a demanding academic program, socio-emotional learning support, and tiered interventions that focus on the whole child. Students leave with a foundation to be successful in their pursuit of education and careers. Founded in 1997, the see forever foundation was created to offer a holistic program to teens involved in the juvenile justice system. At that time, court-involved teens told the organizations co-founders that they wanted to earn money, learn marketable skills, and gain responsibility.…
$18,536,630 spent$18,584,867 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,536,630.
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 $19M to $27M (+37%).
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 10% · 2019 7% · 2020 4% · 2021 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 17% · 2024 10% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Cheryl Holcomb-Mccoy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50k → $58k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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: $511k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest See Forever Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of THE MAYA ANGELOU 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 69% · 2022 57% · 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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
51% of THE MAYA ANGELOU 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. Of the $107k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 MAYA ANGELOU 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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- See Forever Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,460 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $217,460 in grants to THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MAYA ANGELOU 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 8 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