- Revenue 2024
- $178,105,036
- Expenses 2024
- $176,060,565
Program services were 84.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B29
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 2001 GATEWAY PL STE 230E
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
-
PRESTON SMITH
CEO
- Total calculated
- $377,475
- From this org
- $317,893
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $59,582
- Hours/week
- 40 + 10 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $317,893
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $23,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $36,582
- Filer's total
- $377,475
-
LAMAR WADE
CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $344,531
- From this org
- $313,116
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $31,415
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $313,116
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $23,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $8,415
- Filer's total
- $344,531
-
MARICELA GUERRERO
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CALIFO
- Total calculated
- $309,867
- From this org
- $225,536
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $84,331
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $225,536
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $51,282
- Nontaxable benefits
- $33,049
- Filer's total
- $309,867
-
MARIA HEREDIA
CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $305,274
- From this org
- $274,824
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $30,450
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $274,824
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $30,450
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $305,274
-
BENJAMIN CARSON
CFO
- Total calculated
- $288,443
- From this org
- $273,284
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $15,159
- Hours/week
- 40 + 15 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $273,284
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,746
- Nontaxable benefits
- $7,413
- Filer's total
- $288,443
-
CHRISTOPHER MURPHY
CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFIC
- Total calculated
- $276,446
- From this org
- $230,575
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $45,871
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $230,575
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $23,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $22,871
- Filer's total
- $276,446
-
KERRY FLANAGAN
NATIONAL CHIEF OF STAFF
- Total calculated
- $249,124
- From this org
- $249,124
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $249,124
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $249,124
-
LOUIS JORDAN
BOARD PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
GREG STANGER
BOARD SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ALEX TERMAN
BOARD TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DR RAYMOND RAVEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JOLENE SLOTER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
CHARMAINE DETWEILER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 0.5 related
-
DEBORAH MCGRIFF
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
MICHAEL FOX
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DR DANIEL VELASCO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
YOLANDA BERNAL SAMANO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MALKA BORREGO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JULIE MILLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
HUGO CASTANEDA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MICHELLE MERCADO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
RAJEN SHETH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DANIEL SANCHEZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
BRIAN KILB
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
APRIL TAYLOR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
The first 25 listed. 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 — 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $178,105,036
- Expenses
- $176,060,565
- Contributions
- $169,609,170
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $187,005,475
- Expenses
- $171,816,807
- Contributions
- $176,435,050
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $173,897,710
- Expenses
- $158,613,754
- Contributions
- $165,801,952
- Grants paid
- $0
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
-
$1,500,000
2024 CHARTER SCHOOL CAPACITY-BUILDING
-
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM
$1,014,500
2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
-
FORT WORTH EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC
$1,000,000
2024 EDUCATION MODEL
-
$722,000
2023 TO SUPPORT SUMMER BOOST
-
$560,000
2024 TO SUPPORT SUMMER BOOST
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$237,250
2024 TO SUPPORT OPERATIONS OF THE SCHOOL
-
$190,000
2022 TO SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF THE INNOVATION PROGRAM, TO SUPPORT OPERATIONS OF THE SCHOOL
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2022 EDUCATION
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
-
501C3 · SUPPORTING · CA · controlled entity
-
ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSIN
501C3 · CHARTER SCHOOL · WI · controlled entity
-
ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION DC PUBLIC
501C3 · CHARTER SCHOOL · DC · controlled entity
Declared as related by
-
ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSIN INC
On its 2024 return
-
On its 2024 return
-
On its 2024 return
-
LAUNCHPAD DEVELOPMENT FIVE LLC
On its 2023 return
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.