Florida · Nonprofit
THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC
THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $935,168 to it, the largest being BUFFALO HERD INC ($600,168). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $935k
- Net assets
- $611M
What The Villages Charter School Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide quality learning opportunities that promote personal responsibility and inspire children's thirst for knowledge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The villages charter school, inc. (the "school") is a public charter school providing educational opportunities for students of several counties in florida. The school's technology rich curriculum has equipped a generation of students to succeed in the 21st century and pursue paths of lifelong learning. Since its founding in 1999, the school has grown from an elementary school serving about 350 students to a comprehensive k-12 system serving over 4,000 students. Outside of the classroom, the school offers interscholastic sports at both the high school and middle school levels, before- and after-school and vacation programs, and a wide variety of extracurricular opportunities at all grade levels.
$86,288,988 spent$35,389,994 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $86,288,988.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $235M to $626M (+167%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC’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. 1 of the last 5 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
Dr Gary Lester
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC’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 VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 50% · 2019 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Florida 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
THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC has grown faster 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
Government funding THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Villages Early Childhood Center · exempt
- The Villages of Lake-Sumter Inc · corp_trust
- Holding Company of the Villages Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC: 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 VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC?
- THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $935,168 to it, the largest being BUFFALO HERD INC ($600,168). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $935,168 in grants to THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC?
- BUFFALO HERD INC is the largest funder on record, with $600,168 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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