Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney
Donations deductibleRevenue
$16.1m
year to 30 June 2025
Expenses
$16.8m
year to 30 June 2025
Total assets
$5.5m
$7.1m liabilities
Net assets
Minus $1.6m
assets less liabilities
Directors and trustees
5
7.2 years on average
Staff
116
6 volunteers
Left since last filing
0
no seats appear to have opened
Officers and senior staff
5
named in Part VII
Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney's network
5 people3 organisationsi5 people and 3 organisations on this map.The large node is the subject of this page. Solid lines are what the register itself records (5). Violet dotted lines (4) are likely: the same full name sits on the current board of another organisation in the same register and region. Form 990 filings give names without a person identifier; SEC insider filings carry a CIK. It may be a different person.The board
5 listediTime on the board is observed from the annual filings: the IRS files no appointment date, so the bar counts years from the first filing the person appears on - a lower bound, not a filed start date. Names are exactly as filed. The IRS publishes no person identifier, so this edition does not yet link a person across organisations in the tables. The network map shows same-name matches as likely links only, never as confirmed.Time served and departures are observed across annual filings. Observed time served is a lower bound - a member may have joined before the first year on record. The organisation reported 5 voting members of its governing body on its latest Form 990 Part VI, which matches the board listed here.| Name | Role as filed | Since | On the board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara Saunders | Vice President | 2018 | 8 yrs |
| Evette Bowman | Treasurer | 2020 | 6 yrs |
| Lisa Johnson | President | 2018 | 8 yrs |
| Regina Felder | Trustee | 2020 | 6 yrs |
| Reginald Howard | Trustee | 2020 | 6 yrs |
Under 5 years5 to 6 years6 years or more
Officers and senior leadership
5 listediNamed in Part VII as officers, key employees or highest-compensated staff - not board members, shown for completeness.| Name | Title as filed | On the filings |
|---|---|---|
| Dr James Capolupo | CEO/Principal | 2019 |
| Dr Margery Covello | CEO/Principal | since 2020 |
| Kareem Thomas | CEO/Principal | 2018 |
| Nancy White | Assistant Principal | since 2021 |
| Ralph Lovelidge IV | Assistant Principal | since 2021 |
Pay and hours
year to 30 June 2025iFrom Part VII of the Form 990: compensation reported for each officer, director, trustee, key employee and highest-paid staff member, and the average hours a week they report. Most board members are unpaid; a blank means nothing was reported. Pay from related organisations is shown separately.| Name | Title as filed | Hours a week | Pay from the organisation | Related organisations | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Margery Covello | CEO | 40 | $168k | $55k | |
| Nancy White | Assistant Principal | 40 | $141k | $60k | |
| Elaine Latimer | Special Education Director | 40 | $103k | $55k | |
| Reginald Howard | President | 1 | $0 | ||
| Sandra Farmer | Vice President | 1 | $0 | ||
| Barbara L Saunders | Treasurer | 1 | $0 | ||
| Anita Vega - Kaiser | Secretary | 1 | $0 | ||
| Evette Bowman | Member | 1 | $0 | ||
| Regina Felder | Member | 1 | $0 |
About
- Legal name
- Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney
- EIN
- 452887132
- Address
- 900 Lindley Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19141-3920
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Mission
- Lindley academy charter school at birney believes that working together with parents and the community stakeholders creates an ideal environment in which students have the opportunity to strive for academic excellence in all content areas, explore a diverse curriculum, prepare to succeed in a global environment, provide service to a growing community, foster positive healthy adult and child... (as filed on the Form 990)
- Activity (NTEE)
- B99 Education
- IRS classification
- 501(c)03 (tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) where shown)
- Classified purpose
- Education
- Size band
- 7 (IRS master file code)
- Formed
- 2011
- Principal officer
- Dr MARGERY COVELLO (as named on the Form 990)
- IRS ruling date
- 1 June 2014
- Status
- Code 01 (unconditional exemption)
- Form 990 filings on record
- 6, latest 2023
- IRS Publication 78
- PC (contributions deductible)
Most connected
Longest observed on the filings
≥8years on the filingsBarbara Saunders
≥8years on the filingsLisa Johnson
≥6years on the filingsEvette Bowman
≥6years on the filingsRegina Felder
Latest return
year to 30 June 2025iFigures from the newest Form 990 or 990-EZ in the IRS e-file releases of 2025 and 2026, for the year ending 30 June 2025. US dollars, as filed.- Total assets
- $5.5m
- Total liabilities
- $7.1m
- Net assets or fund balances
- Minus $1.6m
- Contributions and grants received
- $2.1m
- Program service revenue
- $13.8m
- Employees
- 116
- Volunteers
- 6
State registration
1 entityiBusiness-entity registers published by US states. These records are matched to this organisation by name and state, not by EIN, and are labelled as likely matches. Street addresses are not shown.Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney likely matchiMatched by exact name and state (and ZIP where shown). State registers do not publish EINs, so this is not a confirmed match. Source: Pennsylvania Department of State, business entities (data.pa.gov xvd7-5r2c). Licence: public domain. Data last fetched 18 October 2026.
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Entity type
- Domestic Nonprofit Corporation
- Status
- Active
- Formed
- 18 July 2011
- Registered agent
- Not stated
Officers (5)
- Anita Vega-Kaiser Secretary
- Barbara Saunders Treasurer
- Reginald Howard Governor
- Reginald Howard President
- Sandra Farmer Vice President
City and state of officers are not held in this extract.