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CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

EIN 82-5253554 SAN ANTONIO, TX

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Revenue 2023
$2,192,654
Expenses 2023
$2,596,806

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 90389

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 · 2023

Mission

The Center for Applied Science & Technology Network (CAST) is a San Antonio-based network of tuition-free public schools with a mission to reinevent schooling in order to maximize options for students while preparing them for college, carrer, and life. Open to all Bexar County students. The Network includes high schools Cast Tech, Cast Teach, Cast Stem, Cast Med, Cast Lead, and advanced learning accademy. Schools are co-created with industry and partner with area public school districts including Northside,San Antonio, Southwest and East Central ISDS. For more information, visit Castschools.com.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The corporation will operate a network of industry focused schools in the San Antonio,TX Region.

  • As of June 30, 2024, CAST Schools consisted of 5 high schools in operation (CAST Tech, CAST STEM, CAST Med, CAST Lead, and CAST Teach) and the Advanced Learning Academy (ALA), which is a pre-K through 12th-grade campus. CAST Schools Programmatic Support (Programs): The Network provides many additional programs as part of its career-centered, experiential approach to learning, that would not otherwise be available to students, and the majority of which are funded through grants. Some examples include travel, job shadowing, internships, service programs, career-connected workshops such as speed interviewing and networking, as well as signature experiences such as the network-wide Youth Rally, and a conference organized and led entirely by students. CAST Metwork develops strategies and provided leadership for the organization and management of the CAST Schools.

    Expenses $2,120,199 · Grants $65,208 · Revenue $182,195

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jeanne Russell

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $189,517
    From this org
    $174,361
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,156
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,361
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,026
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,130
    Filer's total
    $189,517

  • Eddie Rodriguez

    Secretary/Director of Partnerships

    Total calculated
    $151,134
    From this org
    $103,062
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,072
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $103,062
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,395
    Nontaxable benefits
    $43,677
    Filer's total
    $151,134

  • Jennifer M Maestas

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $144,189
    From this org
    $100,522
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,667
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lisa Lewis

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Lyssa Ochoa

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Shari Albright

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katie Chain

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rene Dominguez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erik Nieves

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erik Ford

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amanda Sierra

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,192,654
    Expenses
    $2,596,806
    Contributions
    $2,010,459
    Grants paid
    $65,208
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,628,135
    Expenses
    $4,501,645
    Contributions
    $3,458,191
    Grants paid
    $2,068,992

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
    $2,472,321
    Expenses
    $1,971,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,744,502

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,969,140
    Expenses
    $1,433,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,131,154

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,139,243
    Expenses
    $6,036,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,782,586

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,059,233
    Expenses
    $2,975,392
    Assets (EOY)
    $134,791

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.

Grants made

  • NORTHSIDE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $2,000,000

    2022 START UP GRANT FOR CAST TEACH

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.