New York · Nonprofit
PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC
PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,436,879 to it, the largest being TIMOTHY AND MICHELE BARAKETT FOUNDATION ($1,236,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Professional Childrens School Inc does
Mission
The mission of professional children's school is to provide a challenging academic education for young people working in or studying for careers in the performing and visual arts, competitive sports and other endeavors; to meet the diverse needs of our students; provide mastery of fundamental skills and prepare them for college or other post-secondary education; to teach young people to balance the demands of their professional, personal and academic lives; to provide support for young people who must often contend with the pressures of the adult world in addition to the normal pressures of adolescence; to encourage young people to respect others of diverse ethnic, racial, economic, geographic and artistic backgrounds; to balance their individual needs with the needs of others and to accept responsibility for their decisions; to foster a community in which both academic and artistic pursuits are valued.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Professional children's school is an independent coeducational day school for students in grades 4 through 12 who are preparing for or are already pursuing careers in the performing arts, entertainment or competitive sports, or who are drawn to a creative enviornment supportive of the arts. The school enrolls approximately 125 students and graduated 20 students in 2024.
$6,287,364 spentof which $1,454,696 as grants$5,941,352 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,287,364.
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 $23M to $21M (−11%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Melanie Harris
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $170k → $377k.
9 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 39% · 2019 34% · 2020 50% · 2021 53% · 2022 66% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
56% of PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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
PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC?
- PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,436,879 to it, the largest being TIMOTHY AND MICHELE BARAKETT FOUNDATION ($1,236,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $4,436,879 in grants to PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC?
- TIMOTHY AND MICHELE BARAKETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,236,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing