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FORTE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

EIN 81-2999789 ELMHURST, NY

Revenue 2024
$16,946,320
Expenses 2024
$16,977,738

Program services were 75.2% 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
51-35 REEDER STREET

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).

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.

  • FIONA LIN

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WAI LIN YIP

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELLEN WINN

    SECRETARY (INCOMING CHAIR)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER CRUZ

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER CORDERO

    BOARD TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSEPH SCHILLING

    BOARD TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LORENZO MENDEZ

    BOARD TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA RODRIGUEZ

    BOARD TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SALLY SONG

    BOARD TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VAL ABRAMS

    BOARD TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATIE MULLEN

    BOARD TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL DYMOND

    BOARD TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEJANDRA ESPINOSA

    BOARD TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GRAHAM BROWNE

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $201,514
    From this org
    $192,044
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,470
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $188,827
    Bonus
    $3,217
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,984
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,486
    Filer's total
    $201,514

  • JUSTIN SMITH

    CHIEF SCHOOLS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $194,438
    From this org
    $179,382
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,056
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $166,365
    Bonus
    $13,017
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,897
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,159
    Filer's total
    $194,438

  • VIVIANA BENJUMEA

    CHIEF COMMUNITY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $142,482
    From this org
    $133,472
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,010
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANGELA MU

    HEAD OF UPPER SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $134,939
    From this org
    $130,794
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,145
    Hours/week
    40

  • JULIE MASTRELLA

    HEAD OF LOWER SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $144,517
    From this org
    $129,597
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,920
    Hours/week
    40

  • DAMALI CAINE

    HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS DIR.

    Total calculated
    $130,015
    From this org
    $129,478
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $537
    Hours/week
    40

  • TRINEE ADAMS

    OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, HS

    Total calculated
    $131,628
    From this org
    $122,202
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,426
    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 — 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $16,946,320
    Expenses
    $16,977,738
    Contributions
    $16,762,627
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,103,865
    Expenses
    $14,960,297
    Contributions
    $14,957,082
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,610,274
    Expenses
    $10,215,360
    Contributions
    $10,562,462
    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

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 10 September 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.