New York · Nonprofit
MANDALA SCHOOL INC
MANDALA SCHOOL INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,985 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($12,868). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
MANDALA SCHOOL INC's revenue fell 39% between 2021 and 2025.
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 Greater Niagara Incshared funders
- William M Cage Library Trustportfolio match
- Scholarships for Kids Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
23% of MANDALA SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $48 → $1k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 MANDALA SCHOOL 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
MANDALA SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
87% 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 MANDALA SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% — 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
87% of MANDALA SCHOOL 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 Greater Niagara Incshared fundersNY · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- William M Cage Library Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholarships for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Learning Coalition of Broward County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wildflower Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dinosaurs and Rosesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cooking Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Milpitas Charity Bingo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Dome Scholarship Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Episcopal Children's Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Learning Coalition of Duval Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Drexel Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 MANDALA SCHOOL 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MANDALA SCHOOL 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 MANDALA SCHOOL INC?
- MANDALA SCHOOL INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,985 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($12,868). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MANDALA SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,985 in grants to MANDALA SCHOOL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANDALA SCHOOL INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANDALA SCHOOL 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 2021–2025), 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