New York · Nonprofit
EXODUS SCHOOL
EXODUS SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,157,386 to it, the largest being THE CHASE AND STEPHANIE COLEMAN FOUNDATION ($1,340,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Exodus School does
Mission
The east harlem school challenges students to develop a balanced physical, moral, and intellectual strength that they will use to adapt to change and for the final purpose of creating and sharing lives of deep meaning, dynamic actions, and transcendent joy. We are a middle school (grades 4-8) that recruits children from families with low income and the highest values, and we give preference to those who keep to the traditional belief that creative flight can only be sustained by grounded discipline.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Regular semester program: the east harlem school employs a rigorous, flexible, and creative curriculum grounded in the humanities, math, science, and the arts which effectively prepares graduates for academic success in high school and beyond. The school features an 10 month school year and extended day program (8am-5pm), resulting in nearly 40% more academic instruction than in nyc public middle schools. Students in grades 4 - 8 participate in a skills-based and conceptual math curriculum that prepares students for algebra I by 8th grade. Humanities classes combine the skills and content of both language arts and social studies, and emphasizes reading, writing and making connections with different periods of history and parts of the world. In a hands-on exploratory science class, students explore themes in the application of biology, physics, and chemistry. Students in grades 7 and 8 also participate in foreign language. Students gain conversational, reading, and writing skills in elementary to advanced spanish, and learn about the history and culture of spanish-speaking people worldwide.
$1,833,919 spent$50,705 earned by the program72% of program spendingAfterschool program: the ehs afterschool program is a mandatory component of the extended day program. It provides one-on-one tutoring, community service opportunities, arts programming, specialized seminars in government and history, mentoring programs, and athletic activities. Additionally, at least three days per week, students have an hour-long study hall where they complete their homework and/or work with tutors. Students gather in small groups with two or more faculty and administrative advisors to focus on personal development and the different transitions that they face at ehs. Topics discussed include personal identity, family life, negotiation skills, stress management, team building, and defining relationship between self and community.
$658,741 spent$15,196 earned by the program26% of program spendingAlumni services: the ehs alumni program serves all alumni in high school and college by providing counseling, assistance with application processes, life-skills workshops, and internships.
$45,201 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,537,861.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $14M (−7%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 27% · 2022 1% · 2023 7% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of EXODUS SCHOOL’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. 7 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.
Board chair
Daniel Singer
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $572k → $1.2M.
19 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 EXODUS SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
EXODUS SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
50% 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 EXODUS SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 25% · 2019 36% · 2020 25% · 2021 40% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% — growing more concentrated.
“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
34% of EXODUS SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
59% of EXODUS SCHOOL'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. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
EXODUS SCHOOL's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EXODUS SCHOOL
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXODUS SCHOOL: 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 EXODUS SCHOOL?
- EXODUS SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,157,386 to it, the largest being THE CHASE AND STEPHANIE COLEMAN FOUNDATION ($1,340,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXODUS SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $7,157,386 in grants to EXODUS SCHOOL, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXODUS SCHOOL?
- THE CHASE AND STEPHANIE COLEMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXODUS SCHOOL 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 87 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