New Jersey · Nonprofit
THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL
THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,438 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,025). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Thomas Edison Energysmart Charter School does
Mission
The mission of the Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School is to provide academic and social challenges and opportunities to students, instilling the skills and knowledge that they will need to succeed in their lives. The school aims to forge a powerful partnership out of the student-teacher-parent triad. This partnership will provide and empower our youth with the support necessary to reach their highest potential intellectually, socially, emotionally and physically building on their inherent promise to aid in their preparation for college and career. The schools specific goals are to make its students aware of the green renewable resources and the hazards of global warming. Students are exposed to well designed common core aligned curriculum. Teachers 21st century skills and technology to make learning interactive, interesting and engaging for all students. Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School also offers after school activities like drama clubs, robotics, I-Pad classes, and sim
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School was granted its charter to operate their charter school during the 2010-2011 academic year, but could not open its doors until September, 2012, for their first school year, due to building issues. Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School began its school with grades Kindergarten through Grade 4 for its initial year, and it plans to add a new grade each year up to the 12th Grade. For the 2023-2024 school year, Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School provided a full range of services appropriate to Grades Kindergarten thru 12. These services included regular, as well as special education and basic skills instruction. The Charter School completed the 2023-2024 school year with an enrollment of 609 students.
$10,621,109 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,621,109.
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 $6.8M to $15M (+114%).
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 96% · 2018 95% · 2019 96% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 92% · 2023 91% · 2024 96% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART 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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $766 → $7k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART 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
THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 72% · 2021 72% · 2022 66% · 2023 81% — 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
67% of THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART 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 THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL?
- THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,438 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,025). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $10,438 in grants to THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,025 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THOMAS EDISON ENERGYSMART CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 5 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