New York · Nonprofit
Middle Way School
Middle Way School (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,130,677 to it, the largest being KHYENTSE FOUNDATION ($4,069,728). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $483k
What Middle Way School does
Mission
Middle Way School is an independent progressive school with nearly 100 students, ranging from nursery school to seventh grade. As one of the first schools for children inspired by Buddhist wisdom and compassion, Middle Way School is exploring the rich potential of integrating wisdom and compassion with progressive education. Our aspiration is to prepare students to take their places in the modern world with the noble qualities of intelligence, confidence and discipline, with an understanding of interdependence and a fundamental motivation of altruism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
MWS is one of the first Buddhist-based independent elementary schools for children in the West. MWS's central mission is to infuse academics and all other activities at the school with Buddhist wisdom and compassion. In partnership with Middle Way Education the school is building a new model of Buddhist-based childhood education to be shared globally on an open platform. MWS aspires to bring forth a lifelong love of learning in our children. This requires high-quality, progressive teachers with a curiosity for Buddhist wisdom teachings and a strong supportive administration. Students and families receive dedicated attention and individualized instruction, as well as an invitation to walk the path of wakefulness.
$1,848,295 spentof which $456,861 as grants$1,600,371 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,848,295.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.8M to $647k (−64%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of Middle Way School’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Cecile Hohenlohe
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $496k → $708k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Middle Way School’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
Middle Way School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% 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 Middle Way School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 94% · 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
Middle Way School draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Middle Way School has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Middle Way 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Middle Way 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 Middle Way School?
- Middle Way School (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,130,677 to it, the largest being KHYENTSE FOUNDATION ($4,069,728). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Middle Way School have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $4,130,677 in grants to Middle Way School, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Middle Way School?
- KHYENTSE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,069,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Middle Way 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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