New York · Nonprofit
RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE
RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,606 to it, the largest being THE CLARK FOUNDATION ($700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Rensselaerville Institute does
Mission
Supports foundations, governments and individual donors to invest in social programs with the same rigor as investors seeking financial returns. Shows nonprofits and community organizations how to set and track targets to achieve significant gains for those served.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
School turnaround - an intensive intervention and leadership development initiative that helps principals turn around failing or under performing schools. Program in designed specifically for schools and districts where someone in power perceives a current failure that requires urgent intervention. While most educational initiatives geared toward demonstrating student achievement take place over a long time period, shool turnaround is proven to bring about urgency and time-compressed change in one year.
$687,104 spent86% of program spendingCommunity sparkplugs - our school and community patnerships start with the idea that citizens in the community can create an environment that give children the opportunities they deserve. They end with results like walking brigades to and from school, mobile food banks, and neighborhood family book clubs.
$30,799 spent4% of program spendingPartnerships - helping philanthropy move from funder to investor and nonprofits from activities to results
$84,594 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $802,497.
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.
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 $3.0M to $2.1M (−30%).
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 65% · 2018 71% · 2019 73% · 2020 64% · 2021 69% · 2022 85% · 2023 77% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Loretta Blanks
Exec director school turna
Board chair
Sabrina Hope King
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $223k → $170k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE’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
RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 63% · 2021 42% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — broadly stable.
“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
43% of RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
81% of RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE'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. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $465k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$465k
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 RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE: 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 RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE?
- RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,606 to it, the largest being THE CLARK FOUNDATION ($700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,510,606 in grants to RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE?
- THE CLARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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