- Revenue 2024
- $5,427,173
- Expenses 2024
- $4,965,447
Program services were 86.4% 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
- 133 HOOVER 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
DCS PROVIDES A HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION IN A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES, EMPOWERS STUDENTS WITH DIVERSE TALENTS, DELIVERS RIGOROUS AND CULTURALLY RELEVANT INSTRUCTION, AND FOSTERS CREATIVITY, INQUIRY, AND STRONG CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, AND PLACES GREAT EMPHASIS ON PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH A HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION. DCS COMMITS TO ALSO PROVIDING CULTURALLY RELEVANT INSTRUCTION WHILE FOSTERING CREATIVITY, INQUIRY AND STRONG CHARACTER.
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EXPENSES WERE TO PROVIDE FOR THE OPERATION OF THE SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES K-6 FOR THE 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR.
Expenses $4,291,286 · Revenue $4,380,566
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
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SARA VARHUS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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SCOTT ADAIR
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 1 related
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LISA LEWIS
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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ROBERT STILES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DAN BRAVERMAN
TRUSTEE - RESIGNED 09/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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SAREER FAZILI
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MARISOL GALARZA-RUIZ
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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LAQUISHA BRIDGES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JOYCE JOHNSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MONIQUE FRANKLIN MCDUFFIE
TRUSTEE - JOINED 9/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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CHRISTIAN WILKENS
TRUSTEE - JOINED 11/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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SARA CASTNER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $192,989
- From this org
- $167,487
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $25,502
- Hours/week
- 40 + 1 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $164,987
- Bonus
- $2,500
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $17,050
- Nontaxable benefits
- $8,452
- Filer's total
- $192,989
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $5,427,173
- Expenses
- $4,965,447
- Contributions
- $1,002,760
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $5,450,044
- Expenses
- $5,381,150
- Contributions
- $1,040,351
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $6,017,272
- Expenses
- $5,446,155
- Contributions
- $1,987,148
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,419,936
- Expenses
- $5,812,928
- Assets (EOY)
- $911,612
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,261,668
- Expenses
- $4,444,974
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,230,762
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,686,758
- Expenses
- $5,052,507
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,173,258
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,861,140
- Expenses
- $5,067,343
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,023,406
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,604,968
- Expenses
- $4,867,186
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,135,890
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,685,221
- Expenses
- $4,761,389
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,420,953
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,637,765
- Expenses
- $4,492,160
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,373,781
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,834,009
- Expenses
- $3,727,449
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,250,113
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,248,689
- Expenses
- $3,039,718
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,247,342
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $2,213,502
- Assets (EOY)
- $685,522
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011
- Tax period
- 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012
- Principal officer
- Joe Saia
- Mailing address
- 125 Kings Highway SouthRochester NY 14617
- Website
- www.rochesterdiscovery.com
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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
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$15,000
2022 ALLOCATION TO SUPPORT PMHP PROJECT IN NYS SCHOOLS
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2022 GENERAL
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$7,500
2023 ALLOCATION TO SUPPORT PMHP PROJECT IN NYS SCHOOLS
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
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FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC
501(C)(3) · SUPPORTS THE SCHOOL WITH FUNDING AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSITANCE · NY · controlled entity
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.