Public Charity

DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL

DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL is a Public Charity headquartered in ROCHESTER, NY. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $5.4M revenue, $5.0M expenses, $2.9M total assets. 4 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $36K, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 274310659 ROCHESTER, NY Charter Schools NTEE: B29 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$5.4M
Total Expenses$5.0M
Total Assets$2.9M
Grant Records4
Funding Total$36K
Filing Years2021–2025

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.

Where $100 goes at Discovery Charter School

How Discovery Charter School divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$86 Programs the work itself
$14 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $86 for programs

$86
Expenses were to provide for the operation of the school for students in grades k-6 for the 2024-2025 school year
All program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

TRUSTEE - JOINED 11/24 Christian Wilkens
TRUSTEE - RESIGNED 09/24 Dan Braverman
TRUSTEE Joyce Johnson
TRUSTEE Laquisha Bridges
CHAIR Lisa Lewis
SECRETARY Marisol Galarza-Ruiz

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Top Grant Purposes

Education
$28,165 3 grants
General Support
$8,000 1 grant

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $5.4M $5.0M $2.9M
2024 $5.5M $5.4M $2.1M
2023 $6.0M $5.4M $1.9M
2022 $5.4M $5.8M $912K
2021 $5.3M $4.4M $1.2M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $5.3M to $5.4M (+3%), with total assets most recently reported at $2.9M.

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