New York · Nonprofit
FUTURES IN EDUCATION
FUTURES IN EDUCATION (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,438,486 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($6,000,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Futures in Education does
Mission
The mission of Futures in Education is to ensure that the gift of an excellent catholic education continues to be a viable option for current and future generations of deserving students in brooklyn and queens. As a scholarship granting organization, it provides tuition assistance to the neediest of those students, regardless of their religious denomination, through endowment funds and fundraising programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Futures in Education scholarship program makes a quality catholic education available to as many families as possible by offering partial scholarships to families in financial need of tuition assistance for students in pre-k to 8th grade enrolled in catholic grammar schools in brooklyn and queens. In 2025, the program awarded scholarships to 1,576 students for a total amount of $2,307,726.
$2,307,726 spentof which $2,307,726 as grants34% of program spendingTeddy forstmannin conjunction with the children's scholarship fund (csf), the program stimulates enrollment of students from public schools into catholic schools for those families with financial need of tuition assistance in line with csf's aim to maximize educational opportunity for all children. In 2025, the programs awarded scholarships to 1,555 students for a total amount of $2,112,598.
$2,112,598 spentof which $2,112,598 as grants31% of program spendingBe an angel to a student program a sponsorship program where a donor, an angel, pays a portion of the student's tuition for a family with extraordinary need to help send their children to a catholic school they love. The student sends correspondence to the angel throughout the school year, including letters, greetings and report cards. In 2025, the program awarded scholarships to 720 students for a total amount of $1,689,970.
$1,689,970 spentof which $1,689,970 as grants25% of program spendingOther needs-based scholarshipsFutures in Education provides additional scholarships to high school students and other students in financial need that do not fall into the categories of the three programs listed above.
$721,421 spentof which $178,838 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,831,715.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.7M to $12M (+21%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FUTURES IN EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Mr John Notaro
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $364k → $1.6M.
11 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 FUTURES IN EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
FUTURES IN EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 84% · 2019 75% · 2020 72% · 2021 56% · 2022 78% · 2023 61% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of FUTURES IN EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
97% of FUTURES IN EDUCATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FUTURES IN EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FUTURES IN EDUCATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 FUTURES IN EDUCATION: 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 FUTURES IN EDUCATION?
- FUTURES IN EDUCATION (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,438,486 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($6,000,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUTURES IN EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $10,438,486 in grants to FUTURES IN EDUCATION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUTURES IN EDUCATION?
- MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUTURES IN EDUCATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 49 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