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PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC

PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD S SHINEMAN FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$9k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$113k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Parents of Special Children Inc does

Mission

To facilitate the provision of supportive services to persons with special needs and their families; to promote community awareness with regard to issues of importance to person with disabilities and their families.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The organization provided support and respite to families with children with special needs in oswego county, new york. The organization had no program revenue in 2021.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($291k) Expenses 100 ($282k) Net assets 100 ($127k)2018 Revenue 101 ($294k) Expenses 103 ($290k) Net assets 103 ($131k)2019 Revenue 97 ($283k) Expenses 99 ($280k) Net assets 99 ($125k)2020 Revenue 0 ($1k) Expenses 7 ($19k) Net assets 84 ($107k)2021 Revenue 3 ($9k) Expenses 1 ($2k) Net assets 90 ($113k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (3)Expenses (1)Net assets (90)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $136k to $117k (−14%).

$143k
$142k
$136k
$117k
$122k
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 95% · 2019 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
$4k
’18
$3k
’19
−$18k
’20
$7k
’21
4.6
months of
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.

201720182019
Listed10118
Joined·+2+0
No longer listed·13
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN 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

PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC?
PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD S SHINEMAN FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $23,000 in grants to PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC.
Who is the largest funder of PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC?
RICHARD S SHINEMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 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