New York · Nonprofit
ARETE EDUCATION INC
ARETE EDUCATION INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,287,159 to it, the largest being EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ($476,782). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $399k
What Arete Education Inc does
Mission
Arete operates afterschool and summer programs in new york city public schools
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arete education trains and empowers youth to lead successful lives by getting students into good colleges, good jobs, and healthy mindsets. Arete closes the experience gap with an additional 500 hours of academic and enrichment experiences and provides access to books and computers, healthy meals, structured exercise, social-emotional learning, paid internships, financial life skills, mentorship, and trips to cultural institutions. Arete's core youth development services include: (1) expanded day for elementary and middle school students; (2) summer bridge program that integrates arts and academics in an all-day, five-week format; (3) college bridge program that combines high school credit acceleration and paid internships in a five-week format; (4) work-based learning and paid internships in teaching, stem, and the arts; (5) integrated college access services; and (6) year-round service learning and leadership youth development.arete serves new york city communities, specifically the south bronx (mott haven), brooklyn north (bed-stuy), and manhattan (washington heights and inwood). We partner with public nycdoe schools, colleges, universities, and industry partners in education,…
$1,553,840 spentof which $52,173 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,553,840.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $236k to $689k (+192%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 62% · 2018 83% · 2019 91% · 2020 54% · 2021 65% · 2022 83% · 2023 85% · 2024 90% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ARETE EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $158k → $75k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARETE EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARETE EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARETE EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 30% · 2022 50% · 2023 76% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
17% of ARETE EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of ARETE EDUCATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARETE EDUCATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARETE EDUCATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARETE EDUCATION INC?
- ARETE EDUCATION INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,287,159 to it, the largest being EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ($476,782). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARETE EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,287,159 in grants to ARETE EDUCATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARETE EDUCATION INC?
- EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC is the largest funder on record, with $476,782 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARETE EDUCATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing