New York · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $687,020 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($492,020). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $687k
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What University Prep Public Charter Schools does
Mission
The mission of university prep charter high school is to prepare students for success in college, leadership and life. University prep charter high school will achieve this mission by creating a small, college-preparatory high school where all stakeholders (administrators, teachers, parents, and community)actively engage in the education process. We will create a student-centered environment that unifies the efforts of family, community and school to foster life-long learning, cross-cultural competency, social responsibility and academic excellence. The underlying belief at university prep charter high school is that all students can go to college and that their preparation is our professional responsibility and moral obligation. University prep charter high school aims to graduate "agents of change" who desire to positively impact our communities. Our vision is for the majority of university prep charter high school graduates to return to their communities with college degrees.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Maintenance and operation of a school with approximately 860 students.
$17,893,333 spent$19,215,903 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,893,333.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.3M to $7.7M (+78%).
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 3% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 14% · 2022 15% · 2023 14% · 2024 9% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 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
Andrea D'Amato
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $173k.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS’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
UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 86% · 2023 80% — diversifying over time.
“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
UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
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
UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: 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 UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $687,020 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($492,020). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $687,020 in grants to UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $492,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing