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NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,875,725 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($6,110,499). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$25M
Revenue FY2025
14
Funders on record
$8.9M
Grants received
$24M
Net assets
10/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)113% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($125k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2019 Revenue 1427 ($1.8M) Expenses 816 ($948k) Net assets 9465 ($845k)2020 Revenue 13998 ($18M) Expenses 12892 ($15M) Net assets 48287 ($4.3M)2021 Revenue 12848 ($16M) Expenses 11713 ($14M) Net assets 76130 ($6.8M)2022 Revenue 16425 ($21M) Expenses 12356 ($14M) Net assets 135472 ($12M)2023 Revenue 15203 ($19M) Expenses 14648 ($17M) Net assets 157894 ($14M)2024 Revenue 19902 ($25M) Expenses 16153 ($19M) Net assets 226564 ($20M)2025 Revenue 19736 ($25M) Expenses 18182 ($21M) Net assets 266515 ($24M)
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Revenue (19736)Expenses (18182)Net assets (266515)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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 24% · 2021 13% · 2022 16% · 2023 21% · 2024 22% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

19% of NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
18
$836k
19
$2.5M
20
$2.5M
21
$6.2M
22
$2.0M
23
$6.1M
24
$3.6M
25
5.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $593k → $812k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)72% 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 NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS’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

NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84% 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 NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS.

69%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 79% · 2020 59% · 2021 93% · 2022 77% · 2023 55%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

80% of NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

72% of NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS'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 $2.5M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

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. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

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 Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: 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 NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS?
NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,875,725 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($6,110,499). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $8,875,725 in grants to NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,110,499 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 14funders 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