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FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL

FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,421 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($259,511). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$9.1M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$261k
Net assets
$2.5M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Friends of Growing Up Green Charter School does

Mission

To support the operations of growing up green charter schools by managing the schools real estate and facilities-related needs, and by raising funds and resources that will enable the organization to provide support to the schools and enhance the experience of the schools students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization supports the operations of growing up green charter schools, a new york state not-for-profit education corporation that operates in the borough of queens, new york. Friends of growing up green subleases facilities to the school. Rental income under the sublease was $8,983,807 during the fiscal year.

    $7,871,123 spent$8,983,807 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,871,123.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets -64 ($-870170)2022 Revenue 419 ($5.5M) Expenses 244 ($5.3M) Net assets -78 ($-1057225)2023 Revenue 508 ($6.6M) Expenses 265 ($5.8M) Net assets -17 ($-236061)2024 Revenue 693 ($9.0M) Expenses 340 ($7.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 696 ($9.1M) Expenses 362 ($7.9M) Net assets 186 ($2.5M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (696)Expenses (362)Net assets (186)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $72M (+3074%).

$643k
$2.3M
$72M
$105M
$105M
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

1% of FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$884k
’21
$142k
’22
$821k
’23
$1.6M
’24
$1.2M
’25
2.2
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

Matthew Greenberg

Executive director

Board chair

Jeff Mueller

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed44444
Joined·+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·0010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $37k → $73k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
2
3
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER 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

FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.

NY

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

’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)62% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,421 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($259,511). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $261,421 in grants to FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $259,511 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER 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.

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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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