California · Nonprofit
NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT
NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,340 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($373,800). 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $926k
- Net assets
- $47M
What New School for Child Development does
Program
New school offers school programs consistent with its tax exempt purpose. New School for Child Development operates seven schools on three separate campuses all of which are certified by the california department of education. The help group's north hills prep is located at van nuys campus and are dedicated to educating students with social, emotional and/or behavioral challenges. The sherman oaks campus has four separately certified schools (village glen school, bridgeport school, sunrise school, and young learners preschool) all of which are dedicated to serving the educational and social needs of students with special needs related to autism spectrum disorders and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
$21,067,820 spent$19,451,672 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,067,820.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $71M to $55M (−22%).
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: 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Susan Berman Phd
President & CEO
Board chair
Howard Tenbaum
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $103k → $165k.
10 of 19 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 SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT’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 SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 56% · 2019 75% · 2020 46% · 2021 31% · 2022 45% · 2023 21% — 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
33% of NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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 SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT'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 $255k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $671k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $926k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- The Help Group Child and Family Center · exempt
- Project Six · exempt
- Pacific Living Alternatives · exempt
- New Opportunities for Living · exempt
- Summit View School · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT?
- NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,340 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($373,800). 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 SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $926,340 in grants to NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $373,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing