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CLEAR DOT CHARTER SCHOOL COLUMBIA

EIN 82-5407406 COLUMBIA, SC

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Revenue 2024
$7,319,427
Expenses 2024
$7,159,870

Program services were 77.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
2000
Street
2015 MARION ST

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF CLEAR DOT CHARTER SCHOOL IS TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBALLY COMPETENT STUDENTS.

  • THE SCHOOL PROVIDES STUDENTS WITH A COMMUNITY BASED, ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIENTIOUS FACILITY FOCUSED ON THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL COMPETENCY: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING, COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND ATTITUDES AND VALUES. THE SCHOOL PROVIDES EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN FROM 4K THROUGH TWELFTH GRADE. FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2025, 435 STUDENTS WERE ENROLLED.

    Expenses $5,516,444

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Ted Rentz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mario Harper

    CHAIRMAN, DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Modesta Brinkman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Renee Olszewski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kisha Wilson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Stephen Finley

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gail Siegel

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lindsey Ott

    PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $144,200
    From this org
    $141,965
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,235
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,319,427
    Expenses
    $7,159,870
    Contributions
    $7,184,736
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,664,104
    Expenses
    $6,543,531
    Contributions
    $6,562,481
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,448,570
    Expenses
    $5,434,560
    Contributions
    $5,300,736
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,383,159
    Expenses
    $3,907,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,369,050
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,409,731
    Expenses
    $3,293,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,640,561
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,337,305
    Expenses
    $2,370,362
    Assets (EOY)
    $919,725
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $609,751
    Expenses
    $545,643
    Assets (EOY)
    $188,195

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018
Principal officer
Thomas Howard
Mailing address
701 GERVAIS ST STE 140-150COLUMBIA SC 29201
Website
WWW.CLEARDOTCHARTERSCHOOL.ORG

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 11 November 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.