Public Charity

ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS is a Public Charity headquartered in OAKLAND, CA. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $315.4M revenue, $329.9M expenses, $396.0M total assets. 149 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $26.7M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 943311088 OAKLAND, CA Elementary & Secondary Schools NTEE: B20 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$315.4M
Total Expenses$329.9M
Total Assets$396.0M
Grant Records149
Funding Total$26.7M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

TO OPEN AND OPERATE SMALL, HIGH-QUALITY CHARTER SCHOOLS IN LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS; TO INCREASE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF UNDERSERVED STUDENTS; TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE EDUCATORS; TO SHARE SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES WITH OTHER FORWARD THINKING EDUCATORS; TO CATALYZE CHANGE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Where $100 goes at Aspire Public Schools

How Aspire Public Schools divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$91 Programs the work itself
$9 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 $91 for programs

$91
Aspire Public Schools builds and operates high quality public charter schools to prepare students for college
All program spending · Reported in the filing: 36 schools; 15,000 students
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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

BOARD MEMBER Anthony Barkett
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Anthony Solina
BOARD MEMBER Ay'anna Moody
BOARD CHAIR Beth Hunkapiller
BOARD MEMBER Christina Christopher
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Christopher Carr

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$13,117,339 64 grants
Education
$11,138,057 71 grants
Civil Rights & Social Justice
$270,000 1 grant
Youth Development
$241,000 2 grants
Health & Medicine
$150,000 1 grant

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $315.4M $329.9M $396.0M
2024 $317.7M $334.5M $415.9M
2023 $327.0M $293.3M $293.7M
2022 $254.8M $250.4M $245.3M
2021 $233.5M $211.1M $207.8M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $233.5M to $315.4M (+35%), with total assets most recently reported at $396.0M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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