New Jersey · Nonprofit
PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL
PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,174,163 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($618,198). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Princeton Nursery School does
Mission
Princeton Nursey School's mision is to provide quality childcare and preschool services to children 2.5 to 5 years old from working families with low to moderate incomes. For more than 90 years PNS has provided children with a positive learning environment that services to address all of their developmental needs and to provide a solid foundation to begin a life-long love of learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide quality child care and preschool education with related support services including meals (breakfast, lunch, & snack), health & wellness programs including physical fitness, nutrition & oral hygiene to children, between the ages of 2.5 years and 5 years, in a diverse setting that is affordable through scholarships and assistance to all.
$793,822 spentof which $22,288 as grants$494,939 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $793,822.
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 2020 to 2021, from $788k to $1.2M (+54%).
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: 2017 44% · 2018 35% · 2019 30% · 2020 26% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 15% · 2024 9% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kemilola L Jahnke
Executive director
Board chair
Janine Soroken
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $26k → $89k.
9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 NURSERY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 NURSERY SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 75% · 2019 41% · 2020 70% · 2021 25% · 2022 49% · 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
63% of PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
74% of PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL'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 $300k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $874k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 NURSERY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- GRANT IN AID$1.2M
- FEDERAL$973k
- DEDICATED$2k
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 NURSERY 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRINCETON NURSERY 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 PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL?
- PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,174,163 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($618,198). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,174,163 in grants to PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL?
- Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $618,198 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRINCETON NURSERY 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 33 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