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BREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS

EIN 27-0362848 CLEVELAND, OH

Revenue 2023
$9,723,123
Expenses 2023
$9,845,031

Program services were 87.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
2000
Street
3615 SUPERIOR AVE BLDG 44

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 BREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS MISSION IS TO PROVIDE CLEVELAND AREA SCHOLARS WITH AN EDUCATION THAT EMPOWERS THEM TO LEAD LIVES FULL OF IMPACT AND OPPORTUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BPS' MISSION IS TO PROVIDE SUSTAINABLE, HIGH-QUALITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN (SEE SCHEDULE O)CLEVELAND'S UNDER-SERVED NEIGHBORHOODS, ENSURING ALL STUDENTS HAVE ACCESSTO A PUBLIC, FREE, OUTSTANDING COLLEGE PREPARATORY EDUCATION. OUR SCHOOLSHAVE BEEN HONORED BY LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOREXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, LEADERSHIP, AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. WE CURRENTLYSERVE NEARLY 3,300 K-8 STUDENTS ACROSS TEN FREE, PUBLIC CHARTERSCHOOLS.

  • BREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS A CHARTER SCHOOL MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION FORMED TO SUPPORT THREE URBAN PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS IN CLEVELAND, OH., WHICH HAS EXPANDED TO SUPPORT SIXCHARTER SCHOOLS THROUGH JUNE 30, 2024.

    Expenses $8,637,965 · Revenue $9,282,344

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.

  • ADITI GARG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALAN KOPIT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREW LEE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRADLEY SCHLANG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CECIL LIPSCOMB

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIELLE EISENBERG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GRADY BURROWS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER HOWARD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM LEMAY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOY JOHNSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA MIMURA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA ZUCCA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE HARRIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAM STEINHOUSE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SANJAY VYAS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RALPH JOHNSON

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $250,000
    From this org
    $250,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $250,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $250,000

  • STEPHANIE WERNET

    CIO

    Total calculated
    $147,434
    From this org
    $147,434
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • CELESTE FARMER

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANDREW MCRAE

    CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $232,661
    From this org
    $232,661
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $232,661
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $232,661

  • MEGAN JOHNSTON

    COO

    Total calculated
    $143,000
    From this org
    $143,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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. 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
    $9,723,123
    Expenses
    $9,845,031
    Contributions
    $122,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,910,176
    Expenses
    $9,263,282
    Contributions
    $354,250
    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
    $8,613,684
    Expenses
    $9,057,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,482,127

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,175,570
    Expenses
    $10,570,967
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,179,361

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,374,546
    Expenses
    $6,399,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $817,606

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,957,998
    Expenses
    $8,911,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,482,781

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,603,837
    Expenses
    $8,925,736
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,247,379

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,390,198
    Expenses
    $8,674,334
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,214,294

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,450,157
    Expenses
    $5,496,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,894,363

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,680,359
    Expenses
    $4,502,154
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,502,679

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,237,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,587,906

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

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

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 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 13 October 2026, under deductibility SO.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.