New Jersey · Nonprofit
FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,207,410 to it, the largest being THE HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION INC ($731,290). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Far Hills Country Day School does
Mission
Through academic excellence and character development, Far Hills Country Day School provides each child brilliant beginnings for success in the modern world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Far Hills Country Day School challenges students to think independently and achieve confidently. The school's shared growth mindset contributes to its experiential, student-centered approach to learning, its welcoming community of families, and its focus on developing individual strengths. At far hills, students are empowered to grow inward, outward, and upward and graduate prepared to lead at the country's most competitive secondary schools. The academic journey starts in preschool and continues through grade 8. Students explore and study a variety of subjects, including math, science, language arts, steam, art, social studies, and history, and more.the school provided 239 enrolled students with educational services, programming, and other student-centered offerings during fy2024. The school also provided 239 enrolled students with healthy meals and snacks, as part of the program during fy2024.other accomplishments and highlights include our signature adventure trips for grades 5-8 and capstone projects which include presentations in the form of expo's where the entire school and parent bodies can view the work of the students.
$9,504,388 spentof which $1,425,916 as grants$9,543,637 earned by the program99% of program spendingMusic conservatorythe school offers a music program available to all enrolled students with an average of 45 registered for music lessons in the fall and spring.
$71,066 spent$78,616 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther auxiliary services after school care, enrichment workshops, homework club, summer programs.
$36,675 spent$51,602 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,612,129.
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 2019 to 2020, from $43M to $47M (+9%).
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 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 6% · 2021 2% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Joe Ferraro
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $159k → $467k.
9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
32% 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 HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 47% · 2019 44% · 2020 28% · 2021 24% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — 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
67% of FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $990k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY 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 HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL?
- FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,207,410 to it, the largest being THE HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION INC ($731,290). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,207,410 in grants to FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL?
- THE HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $731,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY 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 37 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