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FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC

FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,914 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($122,850). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$408k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$417k
Net assets
$3.0M
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Friends of Grace Church School Brooklyn Heights Inc does

Mission

Friends of grace church school brooklyn heights is organized exclusively for the purpose of providing financial support for the pre-school programs known as grace church school that are operated by grace church brooklyn heights.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Friends of grace church school brooklyn heights is organized exclusively for the purpose of providing financial support for the pre-school programs known as grace church school that are operated by grace church brooklyn heights.

    $10,021 spentof which $9,021 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,021.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($191k) Expenses 100 ($473k) Net assets 100 ($792k)2018 Revenue 187 ($356k) Expenses 9 ($45k) Net assets 141 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 120 ($229k) Expenses 7 ($35k) Net assets 172 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 101 ($192k) Expenses 12 ($58k) Net assets 194 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 111 ($211k) Expenses 10 ($45k) Net assets 220 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 171 ($326k) Expenses 11 ($50k) Net assets 236 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 222 ($424k) Expenses 21 ($98k) Net assets 277 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 182 ($347k) Expenses 16 ($75k) Net assets 325 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 214 ($408k) Expenses 9 ($43k) Net assets 382 ($3.0M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (214)Expenses (9)Net assets (382)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 2024 to 2025, from $2.6M to $3.0M (+18%).

$795k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$2.6M
$3.0M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$282k
’17
$311k
’18
$195k
’19
$134k
’20
$166k
’21
$276k
’22
$325k
’23
$272k
’24
$365k
’25
263
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed182020202619262218
Joined·+8+3+4+9+0+7+5+1
No longer listed·63437095
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $50k → $103k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS 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

FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

90% 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 FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC.

29%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% — 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

0% of FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

86% of FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC'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 $57k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.

NY
NJ
DE
NC

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

’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $360k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin89% · top quartile
Months of reserve263.4mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

23% of spending goes to programs.

Program 23%Management 40%Fundraising 37%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Grace church brooklyn heights · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC?
FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,914 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($122,850). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $416,914 in grants to FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $122,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS 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.

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 11 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