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Long Island School for the Gifted

Long Island School for the Gifted (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,235 to it, the largest being MR METZGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($84,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.3M
Revenue FY2025
7
Funders on record
$217k
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
7/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

Long Island School for the Gifted is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve4.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 ($4.4M) Expenses 100 ($4.3M) Net assets 100 ($639k)2018 Revenue 102 ($4.4M) Expenses 98 ($4.2M) Net assets 139 ($887k)2019 Revenue 97 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.3M) Net assets 121 ($776k)2020 Revenue 83 ($3.6M) Expenses 93 ($4.0M) Net assets 65 ($413k)2021 Revenue 100 ($4.4M) Expenses 89 ($3.8M) Net assets 163 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 89 ($3.9M) Expenses 86 ($3.7M) Net assets 169 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 93 ($4.1M) Expenses 89 ($3.8M) Net assets 214 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 91 ($3.9M) Expenses 94 ($4.1M) Net assets 211 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 99 ($4.3M) Expenses 101 ($4.4M) Net assets 200 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (101)Net assets (200)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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of Long Island School for the Gifted’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 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.

$48k
17
$210k
18
$110k
19
$355k
20
$533k
21
$182k
22
$236k
23
$107k
24
$73k
25
4.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $45k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)59% 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 Long Island School for the Gifted’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

Long Island School for the Gifted leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

59% 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 Long Island School for the Gifted.

39%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 61% · 2019 61% · 2020 59% · 2021 79% · 2022 54% · 2023 44%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

59% of Long Island School for the Gifted'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 $89k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
NJ
NC

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. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

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 Long Island School for the Gifted

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

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Long Island School for the Gifted: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Long Island School for the Gifted?
Long Island School for the Gifted (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,235 to it, the largest being MR METZGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($84,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Long Island School for the Gifted have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $217,235 in grants to Long Island School for the Gifted, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Long Island School for the Gifted?
MR METZGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Long Island School for the Gifted 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