New York · Nonprofit
LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC
LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,238 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($101,238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education 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.
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Regionshared funders
- Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Incportfolio match
- Protect Democracy Projectportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
100% of LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $15k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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: $153k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Rowboat Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS 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
LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
77% of LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS 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 $30k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Regionshared fundersMA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Protect Democracy Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MoveOn Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The American Association for Justice Robert L Habush Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Long Ridge Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lakeshore Foundation Dated April 5 2011portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Democracy Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sullivan & Cromwell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bader Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Pioneer Valley Incshared fundersMA · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
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 LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS 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.
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 LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC?
- LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,238 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($101,238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $131,238 in grants to LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $101,238 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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