New York · Nonprofit
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,657,466 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($693,723). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Edible Schoolyard New York does
Mission
Edible schoolyard nyc is on a mission to make edible education accessible for every child in nyc. We believe edible education-where kids experience hands-on cooking and gardening helps kids gain the skills to contribute to a healthy and sustainable food system for us all. Edible education helps students build healthy relationships with food, their community, and their environment. Together with public school communities across the city, we're building spaces for kids to flourish.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Core school programmingduring the 2024-25 school year, esynyc partnered with 6 title I public schools in nyc for our core school model, reaching over 2,800 students with our edible education programming. At core sites, esynyc staff members are embedded at the school year-round. Esynyc maintains school gardens and kitchen classrooms, and in-school, afterschool, and community programming throughout the school year. Core programming serves the entire school population and is designed to teach practical cooking and gardening skills alongside other key outcomes including social-emotional learning, academic skills, deepening relationships with peers, the school community, the environment, and more. The robust programming includes: weekly kitchen and garden classes integrated into the school's curriculum; extra-curriculars such as cafeteria tastings to encourage trying new healthy foods and afterschool garden clubs; school-wide and community events such as open garden hours, community potlucks and cooking classes, school wellness initiatives, and food distribution programs. In 2024-25 the organization conducted nearly 1,500 in-school lessons and led nearly 300 extracurricular activities…
$1,571,277 spent$105,433 earned by the program93% of program spendingMobile educationduring the 2024-25 school year, esynyc partnered with 9 nyc public schools to reach over 1,200 students with our mobile education programming. Mobile education is an adapted and scalable version of our edible education programming. In this model, esynyc staff deliver targeted instruction to schools without a full-time esynyc educator or permanent kitchen classroom and garden, allowing us to bring seed-to-table instruction to even more students. Mobile education programming is customized to meet the needs of each school partner. Lesson plans are created and led by esynyc staff members, and esynyc provides all of the food, supplies, and equipment for each lesson. Esynyc staff members may lead up to 3 mobile education lessons per day, and our engagement with each school typically ranges from 4-8 days of instruction.
$18,359 spent$72,233 earned by the program1% of program spendingProfessional development/technical assistanceesynyc expands access to edible education and school gardens in nyc schools through our professional development and technical assistance programs. These programs enable us to work with schools and educators across the city, empowering them with knowledge and resources to bring edible education to their schools.our expert staff lead professional development sessions for nyc public school teachers on a variety of topics designed to help them bring seed-to-table education into their own classrooms, even with limited access to a kitchen or garden. Topics include: using cooking and gardening to support students' social-emotional learning; using food to increase student engagement in social studies and english language arts; and using seed-to-table activities to promote family engagement.through our technical assistance programming, our expert staff build or enhance school gardens and offer consultations on topics including how to equip a classroom to facilitate a cooking lesson; how to create a healthy cafeteria culture; and how to build or maintain a school garden.in the 2024-25 school year, esynyc led 7 professional development…
$19,936 spent$51,170 earned by the program1% of program spendingSeed-to-table fellowshipthe 2024-25 school year marked the second year of eynyc's innovative seed-to-table fellowship program. Funded by the usda, this fellowship program allowed us to significantly expand our professional development offerings by engaging a cohort of 10 schools per year (20 schools total) with enhanced support to empower them to launch and sustain edible education at their schools. Fellowship participants engaged in a series of six workshops designed to build their own knowledge and skills related to urban gardening and cooking education, and develop a scope and sequence and food education curriculum to implement with their students. These workshops, combined with on-site technical support and a financial stipend to support implementation, provided an exciting opportunity for esynyc to pilot a new way to expand edible education to even more nyc public schools.
$79,925 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,689,497.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $2.6M (+43%).
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 5% · 2021 33% · 2022 5% · 2023 14% · 2024 24% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 20 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $262k → $699k.
14 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
35% 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 EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 35% · 2019 18% · 2020 24% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 2023 21% — 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
31% of EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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.
Against its field
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $456k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$456k
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 EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK?
- EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,657,466 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($693,723). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $5,657,466 in grants to EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $693,723 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK 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 81 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