New Jersey · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC
CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,004,149 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($2,894,356). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Center for Supportive Schools Inc does
Mission
Css helps schools become places where students want to be. We partner with schools in three areas: developing all students into leaders; empowering teachers to collaborate with each other and with students; and engaging entire school communities to improve how learning happens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The teen prevention education program (teen pep) utilizes peer-to-peer education to increase students' knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors associated with sexual health. High school juniors and seniors, known as peer educators, are enrolled in a daily, for-credit, yearlong leadership course taught by school faculty during regular school hours. Peer educators conduct a series of structured workshops for groups of younger peers, faculty, and family members designed to promote healthy relationships and decision-making while simultaneously reducing risky sexual behavior.
$442,519 spent$140,000 earned by the program3% of program spendingPeer group connection (pgc) taps into the power of older students to create a nurturing environment for younger students while simultaneously advancing the peer leaders' own learning, growth, and development. Older students, known as peer leaders, are trained to be leaders and positive role models by school faculty during regular school hours. Each week, pairs of peer leaders meet with small groups of younger students in outreach sessions designed to strengthen relationships and build social and emotional skills. Research indicates that pgc improves the graduation rates of student participants by nine percentage points, increases daily attendance by as many as six days, and cuts by half the number of male students who would otherwise drop out.
$2,707,085 spent$802,725 earned by the program17% of program spendingCommunity schools: in our work with community schools, css uses a collaborative, data- informed, and relationship-driven approach, grounded with a focus on student leadership, to partner with schools to improve student and school outcomes. Css helps community schools provide student leadership opportunities, strong family partnerships, engaging academic instruction, social services for families and community members, and professional learning opportunities for teachers. Through carefully cultivated partnerships with school leadership, students, families, teachers, and community members, css community schools develop customized community school plans that focus on student attendance, health and wellness, social-emotional development, academics, youth development, and more. Css currently serves as a lead community-based organization for 29 community schools.
$11,783,879 spent$12,835,421 earned by the program76% of program spending"achievement mentoring (am): a school-based prevention and intervention program, developed by dr. Brenna bry, that pairs adult school staff with students in one-to-one mentor-mentee relationships and has been proven to reduce problem behaviors, improve academics, and reduce school dropout among at-risk students. "data-driven continuous improvement: a data-informed, relationship-driven initiative that provides schools with the ability to (a) build a sustainable infrastructure for analyzing critical data in publicly accountable ways, and (b) share productive dialogue throughout the school community (administrators, faculty, other staff, students, parents, and key community members/organizations) about strengths and areas of need that leads to the implementation of targeted and customized actions. "when students lead: gives middle and high school students the opportunity to elevate youth voice and engagement on issues important to them. Participating students receive evidence-based leadership training to help them become effective advocates for causes they are passionate about and to inspire their peers to advocate for change within their school communities. Students are equipped…
$548,117 spent$299,362 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,481,600.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.3M to $6.6M (−20%).
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 29% · 2018 26% · 2019 26% · 2020 23% · 2021 29% · 2022 23% · 2023 18% · 2024 16% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $484k → $896k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS 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
CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 98% · 2019 96% · 2020 59% · 2021 92% · 2022 45% · 2023 39% — 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
38% of CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k 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
CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 132 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.9M on record — $19.5M federal, $8.4M state.
- Department of Justice$7.2M
- Department of Education$6.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.9M
- NJ$8.4M
- DE$9k
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 CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC?
- CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,004,149 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($2,894,356). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $6,004,149 in grants to CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY is the largest funder on record, with $2,894,356 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 30 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing