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DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION

DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,514,425 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,428,654). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
53
Grants received
$7.5M
Net assets
$10M
31/53 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Dwight School Foundation does

Mission

To provide financial aid, professional development, and enrichment items to dwight school students and faculty.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Financial aid: the Dwight School Foundation contributes funds to the school to be used in support of need-based financial aid for qualifying students.

    $1,420,000 spentof which $1,420,000 as grants$134,248 earned by the program
    82% of program spending

  2. Faculty professional development: funds raised support teacher access to professional development, including graduate education, international and domestic conferences, curriculum innovation support, and international baccalaureate training.

    $254,316 spentof which $254,316 as grants
    15% of program spending

  3. Spark tank innovation grants and opportunities for students to give presentations to spark tank judges for feedback, mentorship, and funding through innovation grants.

    $49,121 spentof which $12,385 as grants
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,723,437.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($8.7M)2018 Revenue 198 ($4.6M) Expenses 110 ($2.8M) Net assets 121 ($10M)2019 Revenue 91 ($2.1M) Expenses 124 ($3.1M) Net assets 109 ($9.5M)2020 Revenue 127 ($2.9M) Expenses 102 ($2.6M) Net assets 113 ($9.8M)2021 Revenue 95 ($2.2M) Expenses 90 ($2.3M) Net assets 115 ($9.9M)2022 Revenue 131 ($3.0M) Expenses 91 ($2.3M) Net assets 121 ($11M)2023 Revenue 119 ($2.7M) Expenses 94 ($2.4M) Net assets 126 ($11M)2024 Revenue 76 ($1.8M) Expenses 96 ($2.4M) Net assets 119 ($10M)2025 Revenue 109 ($2.5M) Expenses 104 ($2.6M) Net assets 117 ($10M)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (104)Net assets (117)

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 $8.7M to $11M (+21%).

$8.7M
$11M
$9.5M
$9.9M
$10.0M
$11M
$11M
$10M
$10M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$210k
’17
$1.8M
’18
−$1.0M
’19
$368k
’20
−$77k
’21
$743k
’22
$390k
’23
−$668k
’24
−$103k
’25
14
months of
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.

Chief executive

Moira Price

Executive director

Board chair

Susan Kessler

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed131414131817201822
Joined·+1+2+1+9+1+3+1+4
No longer listed·02242030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $516k → $805k.

Funder
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total
funders
10
14
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23
19
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17
14
2

15 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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

DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

46%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 31% · 2019 58% · 2020 57% · 2021 47% · 2022 43% · 2023 47% — broadly stable.

“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

41% of DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

64% of DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.7M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from New York funders.

MN
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
MO
DE
NC
DC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION

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

David & Dovetta Wilson Scholarship Fund83%Dutchess Day School82%The Doane Stuart School81%The Oliver Scholars Program Inc80%Gillen Brewer School80%The Chamber Foundation Inc80%Dalton Schools Inc80%The Hewitt School80%

Nationally

Dwight-Englewood School87%David & Dovetta Wilson Scholarship Fund83%Issaquah Schools Foundation83%College of Dupage Foundation83%Dexter Southfield Inc83%Windward School83%Decatur County Community Foundation Inc82%Drew Charter School Inc82%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 21%Fundraising 13%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

72%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • The Anglo American International School · exempt
  • Dwight School · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,514,425 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,428,654). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $7,514,425 in grants to DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,428,654 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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 53 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