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Fencing In the Schools Inc

Fencing In the Schools Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,096 to it, the largest being THE THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$0
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$133k
Net assets
$-75538
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Fencing In the Schools Inc does

Mission

Empowering youth to achieve excellence through the sport of fencing

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. gala- Promote the sport of fencing by creating physical education modules after school programs and varsity teams

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($127k) Expenses 100 ($150k) Net assets -24 ($-12270)2019 Revenue 116 ($147k) Expenses 56 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($51k)2020 Revenue 34 ($44k) Expenses 33 ($50k) Net assets 88 ($45k)2021 Revenue 9 ($12k) Expenses 2 ($3k) Net assets 105 ($53k)2022 Revenue 5 ($6k) Expenses 13 ($19k) Net assets 79 ($40k)2023 Revenue 0 ($451) Expenses 5 ($7k) Net assets 66 ($33k)2024 Revenue 33 ($42k) Expenses 19 ($28k) Net assets 94 ($48k)2025 Revenue 2 ($2k) Expenses 21 ($31k) Net assets 36 ($18k)2026 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 63 ($94k) Net assets -149 ($-75538)
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Revenue (0)Expenses (63)Net assets (-149)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $34k to $51k (+50%).

$34k
$51k
$57k
$66k
$53k
$46k
$60k
$48k
$47k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Fencing In the Schools Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,152 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$23k
’18
$63k
’19
−$6k
’20
$9k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$7k
’23
$14k
’24
−$29k
’25
−$94k
’26
2.0
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

Timothy Morehouse

CEO

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

201820192026
Listed655
Joined·+0·
No longer listed·1·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $43k → $18.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Fencing In the Schools Inc’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

Fencing In the Schools Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

42% 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 Fencing In the Schools Inc.

56%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

98% of Fencing In the Schools Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
NC

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

’18
’19
’20
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Against its field

Fencing In the Schools Inc's revenue fell 100% between 2018 and 2026.

Revenue growth (annualized)−45% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 662 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Fencing In the Schools Inc?
Fencing In the Schools Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,096 to it, the largest being THE THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Fencing In the Schools Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $133,096 in grants to Fencing In the Schools Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Fencing In the Schools Inc?
THE THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Fencing In the Schools Inc 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 6 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