Ohio · Nonprofit
HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL
HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL (Ohio) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,363,794 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($2,403,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 127
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $168M
What Hathaway Brown School does
Mission
The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. Our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1876, hathaway brown is committed to a fusion of academic and experiential learning. This co-ed early childhood and all-girls' k-12 independent day school of 744 students focuses on educational innovation as it prepares students to rise boldly to the challenges of our times and live out the hb motto of learning not for school, but for life."hb's inclusive environment, outstanding faculty, and unique programs draw families from 75 communities across northeast ohio to its beautiful 16-acre shaker heights campus, which houses an aquatics center, idea lab, visual and performing arts spaces, turf playing field, upper school learning commons, and working television studio. Immersive academic, service, and cultural opportunities abound, and graduates attend many of the world's top universities.the school is consistently honored by well-regarded educational institutions, social service organizations, businesses, professional societies, and journalistic publications. The 91 students in the class of 2025, which includes 5 national merit finalists, 9 national merit commended scholars, 5 college board national african american and hispanic recognition program scholars, 3…
$31,328,909 spentof which $6,658,377 as grants$28,096,842 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $31,328,909.
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 $137M to $155M (+14%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $338k → $2.4M.
23 of 127 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 127 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
HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
50% 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 HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 30% · 2019 20% · 2020 11% · 2021 24% · 2022 39% · 2023 29% — 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
52% of HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
72% of HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M 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
HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HATHAWAY BROWN 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Blazing Barracudas LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: 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 HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL?
- HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL (Ohio) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,363,794 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($2,403,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 127 organizations giving $15,363,794 in grants to HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $2,403,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 127 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