New Jersey · Nonprofit
FAR BROOK SCHOOL
FAR BROOK SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,469,677 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($353,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Far Brook School does
Mission
To create a supportive and caring community that cherishes love of learning, creativity, and individuality, and that provides teachers and students with both support and freedom to take risks in order to reach their full potential. A far brook education takes place in an environment of natural beauty and intimacy, where character and citizenship are valued as much as achievement. Implicit in our philosophy is the goal of bringing students to their highest level of academic and personal competency, both for their present and in preparation for their future education. It is our desire to touch the life of every child so that he or she may live life wisely and with great joy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Far Brook School is an independent day school located in short hills, new jersey. The school provides elementary education for boys and girls in nursery through grade eight.our approach to education embraces the following tenets of progressive education:1. Theme-based curriculum: teaching through themes emphasizes depth over breadth, allowing students to become experts on that topic.2. Hands-on learning: learning is experiential and active. Students construct their own knowledge through meaningful experiences, guided by passionate educators.3. An appreciation for nature: far brook's unique wooded campus provides an opportunity for learning without walls. At far brook, a bird's nest discovered in a tree becomes a science lesson; a sound heard in our wetlands habitat becomes a poem.4. Collaboration: collaboration is emphasized. Students learn to work with others from diverse grades, experiences, learning styles, and thinking, whether solving a problem in algebra, acting on stage, building a bench in woodshop, or passing the ball on the soccer field.5. Learning through the arts: integrating the arts with academics, technology, and physical education has been at the heart of far…
$10,417,870 spentof which $1,525,366 as grants$11,135,474 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,417,870.
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.
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 $30M to $37M (+21%).
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: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Marc Schwartz
President & chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $8k → $192k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 FAR BROOK SCHOOL’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
FAR BROOK SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 FAR BROOK SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 92% · 2019 67% · 2020 69% · 2021 39% · 2022 43% · 2023 22% — 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
45% of FAR BROOK SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 FAR BROOK SCHOOL'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 $608k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $862k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like FAR BROOK 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 Jersey
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
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAR BROOK 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 FAR BROOK SCHOOL?
- FAR BROOK SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,469,677 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($353,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAR BROOK SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,469,677 in grants to FAR BROOK SCHOOL, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAR BROOK SCHOOL?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $353,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAR BROOK SCHOOL 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 26 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