Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$21,580,942

Total expenses

$21,538,891

Contributions and grants received

$21,242,340

Grants paid

$12,889,499

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$262,196

Other revenue

$76,406

Total assets, end of year

$4,041,644

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$4,041,644

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$20,582,299

Management and general expenses

$938,908

Fundraising expenses

$17,684

Program service expenses (Part III)

$20,582,299

Program services were 95.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• OUR FIRST STRATEGIC PRIORITY IS TO ELEVATE THE VOICES OF THOSE MOST UNDERSERVED BY OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS AND EMPOWER FAMILIES AND STUDENTS TO DESIGN AND DRIVE CHANGE AS PART OF A BROAD AND DIVERSE COALITION. THIS PROGRAM AIMS TO 1) STRENGTHEN PARENT LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY INFRASTRUCTURE BY ORGANIZING AND GROWING NEW NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS FOCUSED ON LOWEST 5% PERFORMING SCHOOLS IN ST. LOUIS CITY, SEEDING EFFORTS TO CREATE DEMAND IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY, AND IMPROVING CHARTER PERCEPTIONS BY ORGANIZING 10K CHARTER PARENT VOICES VIA STATE CHARTER ASSOCIATION, 2) INCREASING TRUST THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY COALITIONS, AND 3) CONTINUE INVESTING IN EARLY STAGE GROWTH OF KEY PARTNERS.

  Expenses $2,152,035 · Grants $909,453

• OUR SECOND STRATEGIC PRIORITY IS FOCUSED ON INCREASING ACCESS TO WORLD-CLASS SCHOOLS BY GROWING THE CAPACITY OF OUR MOST SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS, LAUNCHING NEW AND INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS, STRENGTHENING EXISTING SCHOOLS WITH CONDITIONS FOR SUSTAINED SUCCESS, AND HELPING DISTRICTS TO METHODICALLY TRANSFORM THEIR LOWEST PERFORMING SCHOOLS. THIS PROGRAM AIMS TO 1) DRIVE TOWARD GOAL OF 25% STUDENTS IN QUALITY SEATS BY EXPANDING INVESTMENTS IN NEW SCHOOLS, EXPANDING INVESTMENTS TO ADDITIONAL SCHOOLS, AND MAINTAINING INVESTMENTS IN HIGH PERFORMING CHARTERS, 2) CATALYZE SUPPORT FOR DISTRICT AUTONOMOUS MODELS THROUGH COMMUNITY DESIGN AND POST-SECONDARY INTERMEDIARY INITIATIVE, AND 3) EXPLORE PARTNERSHIPS WITH SEVEN COUNTY DISTRICTS REPRESENTING 27K STUDENTS ENROLLED IN LOW-QUALITY SCHOOLS.

  Expenses $11,835,939 · Grants $7,276,391

• OUR FIFTH STRATEGIC PRIORITY IS ADMINISTERING THE "EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES: MISSOURI CHARTER SCHOOL PROGRAM (CSP)" THIS IS A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GRANT WITH AN APPROVED BUDGET OF $35.5 MILLION TO HELP MISSOURI EXPAND OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO ATTEND QUALITY CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS. MISSOURI'S CSP PROGRAM HAS THREE OBJECTIVES: 1) INCREASE THE NUMBER OF QUALITY MISSOURI CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL SEATS, ESPECIALLY FOR OUR MOST EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS; 2) SUPPORT QUALITY CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZING IN MISSOURI, THROUGH THE DISSEMINATION AND SUPPORT OF BEST AUTHORIZER PRACTICES STATEWIDE, AND 3) CODIFY AND SHARE LESSONS FROM HIGH-PERFORMING CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACROSS THE EDUCATION ECOSYSTEM.

  Expenses $5,118,562 · Grants $4,338,655

• Expenses $1,475,763 · Grants $365,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• BELIEVE SCHOOLS

  $1,488,050

  NEW SCHOOLS

• GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS

  $1,307,077

  EXISTING SCHOOL EXPANSION

• KAIROS ACADEMIES

  $1,265,207

  NEW SCHOOLS

• THE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL

  $991,848

  NEW SCHOOLS

• ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY

  $842,131

  NEW SCHOOLS

• ATLAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

  $819,270

  NEW SCHOOLS

• FRIENDLY ACADEMY

  $746,607

  NEW SCHOOLS

• THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL

  $740,000

  NEW SCHOOLS

• PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL

  $714,750

  EXISTING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT

• BRIDGE 2 HOPE

  $650,000

  PARENT & STUDENT LEADERSHIP

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

28 February 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202600629349301330

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