New Jersey · Nonprofit
RANNEY SCHOOL
RANNEY SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,518,323 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,407,205). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Ranney School does
Mission
Ranney School's mission is to see each student mature with character, confidence and courage. Upon graduation, ranney students become tomorrow's leaders, distinguished by their intelligence, ability, social conscience and character. It is our deep conviction that a quality education can make a significant difference in a student's life. At Ranney School, we firmly believe that the most satisfying and successful learning moments are ignited and nurtured by skilled educators in small and inclusive settings. The ranney experience remains highly personal, inspiring, rigorous and well balanced. Each ranney student embarks on an educational journey that provides a bounty of opportunity for self-discovery, guided by modern methods of instruction and traditional educational values.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization operates an independent, co-ed, secular college preparatory school in monmouth county, nj for ages 3 through 12th grade. The school serviced 796 students during the tax year. The school provides a an innovative, flexible curriculum that balances excellence in traditional subjects while fostering creative, out-of the box thinking and encourages students to pursue many interests while at Ranney School. During the year, the school awarded $3.1 million in tuition assistance to 240 students, continued to maintain compliance with state education standrads and 100% of graduating seniors matriculated at four year colleges and universities. Additionally, the school operates enrichment programs for the purpose of providing students with the opportunity for year-round educational experiences, an aftercare program, a student bookstore and a food truck.
$23,666,943 spentof which $3,170,672 as grants$28,814,319 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $23,666,943.
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 2022 to 2023, from $48M to $64M (+31%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of RANNEY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Joseph Guiliano
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $142k.
11 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 RANNEY 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
RANNEY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 RANNEY SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 42% · 2019 38% · 2020 48% · 2021 42% · 2022 38% · 2023 25% — 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
58% of RANNEY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
84% of RANNEY 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 $393k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M 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.
Against its field
RANNEY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like RANNEY 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RANNEY 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 RANNEY SCHOOL?
- RANNEY SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,518,323 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,407,205). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RANNEY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,518,323 in grants to RANNEY SCHOOL, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RANNEY SCHOOL?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $1,407,205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RANNEY 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 24 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