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JUILLIARD SCHOOL

JUILLIARD SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 283 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,744,726 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($50,050,000). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$232M
Funders on record
283
Grants received
$166M
Net assets
$1.5B
167/283 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Juilliard School does

Mission

The mission of the Juilliard School is to cultivate excellence through the highest caliber of education in music, dance, and drama for gifted students from around the world, so they may achieve their fullest potential, expanding the reach and elevating the impact of the arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Juilliard's primary program service accomplishment is providing instruction in music, dance, and drama to approximately 1,200 students in its college and pre-college programs. The expenses associated with provided instruction include compensation (salaries and employment benefits) relating to the educational function of the school, occupancy costs allocable to instruction, teaching materials and services, and instrument maintenance and repair.

    $100,185,845 spent$57,456,888 earned by the program
    62% of program spending

  2. Providing financial assistance to students is a high priority of the school, so that financial circumstances will not be a barrier to entry for its talented musicians, actors, and dancers. Student assistance includes scholarships, fellowships, prizes, certain grants, and federal aid grants received and distributed to eligible students. Approximately 88% of the college population of the school (945 students in total) received student assistance during 2024-2025.

    $38,955,180 spentof which $38,955,180 as grants
    24% of program spending

  3. During 2024-2025 the school supported its mission of higher education through program services indirectly related to the education of talented musicians, actors and dancers. Such indirect program services include support of student activities and programming, auxiliary services such as the juilliard store and the student residence hall, and employee benefit costs.

    $11,449,730 spentof which $644,922 as grants$8,712,559 earned by the program
    7% of program spending

  4. International education

    $4,111,638 spent$13,852,734 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

  5. Student performing arts production

    $7,076,920 spent$576,718 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $161,779,313.

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 ($142M) Expenses 100 ($141M) Net assets 100 ($983M)2018 Revenue 104 ($147M) Expenses 100 ($140M) Net assets 107 ($1.1B)2019 Revenue 93 ($132M) Expenses 102 ($144M) Net assets 105 ($1.0B)2020 Revenue 99 ($141M) Expenses 102 ($144M) Net assets 101 ($990M)2021 Revenue 128 ($182M) Expenses 109 ($154M) Net assets 137 ($1.3B)2022 Revenue 173 ($245M) Expenses 113 ($159M) Net assets 134 ($1.3B)2023 Revenue 128 ($181M) Expenses 129 ($182M) Net assets 134 ($1.3B)2024 Revenue 158 ($224M) Expenses 136 ($191M) Net assets 144 ($1.4B)2025 Revenue 163 ($232M) Expenses 141 ($199M) Net assets 156 ($1.5B)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (141)Net assets (156)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3B to $1.6B (+28%).

$1.2B
$1.3B
$1.3B
$1.3B
$1.6B
$1.6B
$1.6B
$1.7B
$1.8B
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

34% of JUILLIARD SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$741k
’17
$6.6M
’18
−$11M
’19
−$3.7M
’20
$28M
’21
$85M
’22
−$836k
’23
$32M
’24
$33M
’25
0.6
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.

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Listed434445464747535256
Joined·+8+6+9+3+7+13+7+7
No longer listed·75827783
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 62 funders to 126 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $13M.

Funder
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total
funders
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121
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133
126
120
73
3

28 of 283 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Institute of Musical Art); $24k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money JUILLIARD SCHOOL raised.

From the IRS filings of JUILLIARD SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 283 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

JUILLIARD SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

30%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 30% · 2019 20% · 2020 55% · 2021 71% · 2022 20% · 2023 17% — 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

57% of JUILLIARD SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

JUILLIARD SCHOOL draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 25 states in all.

ME
NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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

JUILLIARD SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding JUILLIARD SCHOOL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record — $2.6M federal, $64k state.

Federal$2.6M
grants $2.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$2.5M
  • National Endowment for the Arts$30k
  • Department of State$23k
State$64k
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Top programs
  • FEDERAL$64k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like JUILLIARD 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

Syracuse University83%New York City Charter School of the Arts83%Nichols School of Buffalo83%Professional Childrens School Inc83%Marist University82%Hobart and William Smith Colleges82%Colgate University82%Hellenic Classical Charter Schools - Staten Island82%

Nationally

Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc87%Curtis Institute of Music86%Jefferson Scholars Foundation85%Juniata College85%Berklee College of Music Inc85%Junipero Serra Catholic High School84%William Jewell College84%Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy84%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

37
board members
97%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

61%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CA

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Scherzo LLC · disregarded
  • Institute of Musical Art · exempt
  • Allergo (Tianjin) Education Consulting · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL?
JUILLIARD SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 283 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,744,726 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($50,050,000). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JUILLIARD SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 283 organizations giving $165,744,726 in grants to JUILLIARD SCHOOL, 167 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JUILLIARD SCHOOL?
CRANKSTART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JUILLIARD 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 283 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