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BREAKTHROUGH CHARTER SCHOOL

EIN 85-1052118 MARION, AL

Revenue 2024
$5,624,534
Expenses 2024
$6,872,909

Program services were 88.0% 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
1820 PRIER DR

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

OUR MISSION IS TO PREPARE STUDENTS IN PERRY COUNTY FOR SUCCESS AS CITIZENS AND LEADERS BY PROVIDING A RIGOROUS, SERVICE-ORIENTED, AND PROJECT-BASED PUBLIC SCHOOL THAT SUPPORTS THE SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF EACH INDIVIDUAL CHILD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BREAKTHROUGH CHARTER SCHOOL IS A DIVERSE-BY-DESIGN K-12 SCHOOL EMPHASIZING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING, SERVICE LEARNING, AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ROOTED IN A RIGOROUS, ALIGNED CURRICULUM. BREAKTHROUGH CAPITALIZES ON ITS PARTNERSHIPS WITH MARION MILITARY INSTITUTE AND OTHER COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO BEST-IN-CLASS LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND RESOURCES AND TO ESTABLISH CLEAR POSTSECONDARY PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS TO THRIVE IN THE COMMUNITY.

  • BREAKTHROUGH CHARTER SCHOOL IS A DIVERSE-BY-DESIGN K-12 SCHOOL EMPHASIZING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING, SERVICE LEARNING, AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ROOTED IN A RIGOROUS, ALIGNED CURRICULUM. BREAKTHROUGH CAPITALIZES ON ITS PARTNERSHIPS WITH MARION MILITARY INSTITUTE AND OTHER COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO BEST-IN-CLASS LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND RESOURCES AND TO ESTABLISH CLEAR POSTSECONDARY PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS TO THRIVE IN THE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $6,048,163 · Revenue $116,880

  • N/A

  • N/A

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.

  • Matt Dempsey

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Wendell Crews

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dr David T Marshall

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Suzanne McKee

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carmon Paige-Fields

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Krista Wallace

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Darren Ramalho

    HEAD OF SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $101,801
    From this org
    $82,396
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,405
    Hours/week
    40

  • Alice Barton

    PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $90,260
    From this org
    $70,879
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,381
    Hours/week
    40

  • Willie Shears Jr

    ASST PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $73,293
    From this org
    $56,338
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,955
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kevin Timms

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $85,929
    From this org
    $67,778
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,151
    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
    $5,624,534
    Expenses
    $6,872,909
    Contributions
    $5,505,852
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,597,609
    Expenses
    $4,976,839
    Contributions
    $5,582,919
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,989,107
    Expenses
    $6,205,509
    Contributions
    $6,900,447
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,850,442
    Expenses
    $4,378,924
    Contributions
    $3,756,793
    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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • BREAKTHROUGH REAL ESTATE LLC

    RENTAL · AL · income $0 · assets $2,461,586

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 February 2023, reinstated 15 February 2023.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.