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FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC

FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,892 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($43,924). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$189k
Revenue FY2025
7
Funders on record
$80k
Grants received
$87k
Net assets
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC's revenue fell 51% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($389k) Expenses 100 ($389k) Net assets 100 ($190k)2018 Revenue 95 ($370k) Expenses 107 ($415k) Net assets 76 ($144k)2019 Revenue 95 ($370k) Expenses 92 ($356k) Net assets 70 ($133k)2020 Revenue 56 ($218k) Expenses 66 ($256k) Net assets 51 ($96k)2021 Revenue 32 ($125k) Expenses 28 ($111k) Net assets 58 ($110k)2022 Revenue 32 ($124k) Expenses 38 ($147k) Net assets 46 ($88k)2023 Revenue 39 ($152k) Expenses 38 ($147k) Net assets 49 ($93k)2024 Revenue 58 ($226k) Expenses 55 ($215k) Net assets 55 ($105k)2025 Revenue 49 ($189k) Expenses 53 ($206k) Net assets 46 ($87k)
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Revenue (49)Expenses (53)Net assets (46)Peer revenue range

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

97% of FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$387
17
$45k
18
$14k
19
$38k
20
$14k
21
$23k
22
$6k
23
$12k
24
$17k
25
6.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $13k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)89% 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 THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN 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 THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

89% 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 THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC.

55%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 80%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

89% of FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN 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 $8k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.

ME
NY
NC

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

17
19
20
22
23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC: 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 FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC?
FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,892 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($43,924). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $79,892 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $43,924 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN 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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing