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NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL

NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,746,900 to it, the largest being ZYGMUNT AND AUDREY WILF FOUNDATION ($5,153,052). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$87M
Revenue FY2025
80
Funders on record
$18M
Grants received
$174M
Net assets
45/80 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

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 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($53M) Expenses 100 ($74M) Net assets 100 ($188M)2018 Revenue 159 ($84M) Expenses 104 ($76M) Net assets 97 ($183M)2019 Revenue 148 ($79M) Expenses 112 ($83M) Net assets 92 ($173M)2020 Revenue 142 ($76M) Expenses 118 ($87M) Net assets 82 ($155M)2021 Revenue 155 ($82M) Expenses 112 ($83M) Net assets 99 ($187M)2022 Revenue 155 ($82M) Expenses 122 ($90M) Net assets 83 ($157M)2023 Revenue 156 ($83M) Expenses 119 ($88M) Net assets 89 ($168M)2024 Revenue 145 ($77M) Expenses 126 ($92M) Net assets 90 ($168M)2025 Revenue 163 ($87M) Expenses 132 ($97M) Net assets 92 ($174M)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (132)Net assets (92)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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$20M
17
$8.0M
18
$4.0M
19
$11M
20
$495k
21
$7.6M
22
$5.1M
23
$15M
24
$10M
25
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $404k → $2.5M.

15 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)17% 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 YORK LAW SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 funders by total. 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 YORK LAW SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

30% 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 YORK LAW SCHOOL.

29%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 28% · 2019 35% · 2020 29% · 2021 37% · 2022 32% · 2023 39%growing more concentrated.

“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

39% of NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

55% of NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DE
NC
DC
AL
GA

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

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 80 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.

Government funding NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record — $1.9M federal, $46k state.

Federal$1.9M
grants $1.9Mcontracts $63k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$1.9M
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$63k
State$46k
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Top programs
  • FEDERAL$45k
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$962

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 2%

Governance

30
board members
97%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • New York Law School Legal Services Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW YORK LAW 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 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL?
NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,746,900 to it, the largest being ZYGMUNT AND AUDREY WILF FOUNDATION ($5,153,052). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $17,746,900 in grants to NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL?
ZYGMUNT AND AUDREY WILF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,153,052 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW YORK LAW 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.

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 80funders 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