New Jersey · Nonprofit
PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL
PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $789,492 to it, the largest being CURTIS W MCGRAW FOUNDATION ($345,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $789k
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Princeton Friends School does
Mission
Drawing on a rich tradition of quaker values and practices, Princeton Friends School is committed to creating a diverse, vibrant learning community in which young people engage their natural curiosity; discover and express their individual voices and gifts; (see sch. O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
School: the program activity provided is to operate and maintain a school in the princeton, new jersey area based on the tradition of quaker values and practice. The school has approximately 115 students in pre-k through 8th grade. The school offers a non-competitive interdisciplinary curriculum that fosters intellectual liveliness, develops academic skills, emphasizes direct experience of subject matter, and responds to the individual learning styles, development needs, and personal interests of students.
$4,249,673 spentof which $1,334,771 as grants$3,620,556 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,249,673.
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 $11M to $9.9M (−14%).
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 12% · 2022 8% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $236k → $83k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 PRINCETON FRIENDS 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
PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 74% · 2019 69% · 2020 71% · 2021 65% · 2022 73% · 2023 50% — 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
31% of PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL'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
94% of PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $326k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL's revenue fell 30% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $365k on record.
- TRUST FUND$365k
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 PRINCETON FRIENDS 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Princeton Monthly Meeting of the Re · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL?
- PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $789,492 to it, the largest being CURTIS W MCGRAW FOUNDATION ($345,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $789,492 in grants to PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL?
- CURTIS W MCGRAW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $345,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 15 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