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BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC

EIN 86-0908854 SCOTTSDALE, AZ

Revenue 2024
$169,474,511
Expenses 2024
$170,277,369

Program services were 86.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99Z
Classification
1000
Street
7975 N HAYDEN RD STE C240

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

THE MISSION OF BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS IS TO EMPOWER STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE AT GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE LEVELS WITH A TRANSFORMATIVE K-12 ACADEMIC PROGRAM.

  • DURING THE 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR, BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS, INC. OPERATED TWENTY-THREE CHARTER SCHOOLS IN ARIZONA, TWELVE (12) PRIMARY SCHOOLS, EIGHT (8) UPPER SCHOOLS, AND THREE (3) SERVING KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12. MANY OF THE BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS RECEIVED NATIONAL RECOGNITION BY THE U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT INCLUDING BASIS TUCSON NORTH RANKING 1 NATIONALLY. BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS ALSO TOOK 8 OF THE TOP 15 NATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL RANKINGS (BASIS TUCSON NORTH NO. 1, BASIS PHOENIX NO. 5, BASIS CHANDLER NO. 7, BASIS FLAGSTAFF NO. 8, BASIS ORO VALLEY NO. 9, BASIS MESA NO. 11, BASIS SCOTTSDALE NO. 12, BASIS SAN ANTONIO (TX) - SHAVANO NO. 14). BASIS STEM NATIONAL RANKINGS INCLUDED HIGH SCHOOLS, BASIS CHANDLER RANKING NO. 2, BASIS PEORIA NO. 3, BASIS TUCSON NO. 5 AND BASIS SCOTTSDALE NO. 8. IN THE RANKING OF BEST HIGH SCHOOLS IN ARIZONA, BASIS CHARTERS TOOK THE FIRST 10 SPOTS IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER: BASIS TUCSON NORTH, BASIS PHOENIX, BASIS CHANDLER, BASIS FLAGSTAFF, BASIS ORO VALLEY, BASIS MESA, BASIS SCOTTSDALE, BASIS PEORIA, BASIS AHWATUKEE, AND BASIS PRESCOTT. BASIS REQUIRES ALL STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN AP COURSES AND TESTING BEGINNING IN GRADE 9, AND DESPITE BEING YOUNGER AND IN LOWER GRADE LEVELS, BASIS CHARTER SCHOOL STUDENTS PERFORM EXCEEDINGLY WELL ON AP EXAMS COMPARTED TO THEIR PEERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE GLOBE.

    Expenses $147,620,941 · Revenue $157,377,739

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.

  • CRAIG BARRETT

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SHELLY ESQUE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VICTORIA RICO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LIZ SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEBBIE VENEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VICTORIA RICO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GLENN HAMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MITTIDA RAKSANAVES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERRY SARVAS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEANNA ROWE

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $217,260
    From this org
    $104,301
    From related orgs
    $94,367
    Other
    $18,592
    Hours/week
    21 + 19 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $104,301 + $94,367 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,993 + $2,708 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,652 + $6,239 related
    Filer's total
    $113,946 + $103,314 related

  • ANASTASIA HAWKINS

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $31,796
    From this org
    $8,736
    From related orgs
    $20,385
    Other
    $2,675
    Hours/week
    12 + 28 related

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $169,474,511
    Expenses
    $170,277,369
    Contributions
    $10,800,785
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $176,105,867
    Expenses
    $168,329,259
    Contributions
    $16,199,217
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $171,578,829
    Expenses
    $162,359,016
    Contributions
    $18,935,885
    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
    $158,140,974
    Expenses
    $151,574,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $315,557,724

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $144,837,590
    Expenses
    $143,245,574
    Assets (EOY)
    $320,752,244

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $142,722,059
    Expenses
    $144,070,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $317,039,937

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $141,166,467
    Expenses
    $145,330,233
    Assets (EOY)
    $323,769,739

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $118,944,634
    Expenses
    $125,637,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $347,922,259

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $118,944,634
    Expenses
    $125,637,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $347,922,259

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $85,472,876
    Expenses
    $87,202,174
    Assets (EOY)
    $221,474,552

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $68,542,282
    Expenses
    $72,760,280
    Assets (EOY)
    $175,632,228

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $51,832,726
    Expenses
    $56,272,572
    Assets (EOY)
    $156,239,005

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $26,686,992
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,059,002

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.

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.

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

Declared as related by

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.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 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 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.