New York · Nonprofit
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (New York) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,717,254 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($27,018,204). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91M
- Funders on record
- 151
- Grants received
- $64M
- Net assets
- $63M
What Bank Street College of Education does
Mission
The mission of Bank Street College is to improve the education of children and their teachers by applying to the education process all available knowledge about learning and growth and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world. In so doing, we seek to strengthen not only individuals, but the community as well, including family, school, and the larger society in which adults and children, in all their diversity, interact and learn. We see in education the opportunity to build a better society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Graduate school - bank street's graduate school of education offers master's programs that integrate direct experience with children, teachers and families, exploration and examination of theory and observation and reflection. Our graduate degrees in education provide our students with a thorough, rigorous, humanistic foundation for their careers in early childhood, elementary, as well as educational leadership, museum education, child life, and reading and literacy. We prepare educators to find ways to make learning vital, active, and creative.
$31,834,720 spentof which $16,033,196 as grants$27,218,576 earned by the program42% of program spendingSchool for children - bank street has been serving students for 100 years by providing high quality early childhood programs which include an independent progressive school for children, an onsite family center and after school and summer camp programs. The family center, the school for children, after school and summer camp are referred to as children's programs at bank street, and are administered by the dean of children's programs.
$26,154,008 spentof which $10,067,528 as grants$30,665,066 earned by the program35% of program spendingBsec - the bank street education center partners with schools, school systems, states, and communities to foster positive learning outcomes for students and educators and to advance practice and policy in the field of education nationwide. Our work aims to improve the care and education of students from birth through higher education by strengthening and enabling the success of the adults who support them. Through a distinct set of specialized programs and partnerships, the bank street education center is building an evidence base to inform local practice and address some of the nation's deepest organizational challenges currently hindering effective and equitable teaching and learning for all.
$12,626,531 spentof which $314,665 as grants$5,568,044 earned by the program17% of program spendingAuxiliary activities, including food services.
$5,149,422 spent$462,619 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $75,764,681.
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 2021 to 2022, from $101M to $89M (−12%).
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 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 11% · 2021 17% · 2022 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Victoria Hamilton
Trustee & chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $4.3M → $9.1M.
29 of 151 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 151 funders by total. 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
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 31% · 2019 36% · 2020 46% · 2021 52% · 2022 39% · 2023 53% — 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
35% of BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION's funding base is broadening — from 24 funders to 56 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.8M on record — $12.8M federal, $61k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.4M
- National Science Foundation$1.2M
- Department of Education$1.2M
- Improving Overall Quality$61k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION?
- BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (New York) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,717,254 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($27,018,204). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 151 organizations giving $63,717,254 in grants to BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, 85 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,018,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 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.
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 151 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