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RIVENDELL SCHOOL

RIVENDELL SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,312 to it, the largest being MORRIS AND ALMA SCHAPIRO FUND ($270,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.4M
Revenue FY2025
14
Funders on record
$603k
Grants received
$459k
Net assets
7/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

RIVENDELL SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($625k)2018 Revenue 100 ($4.0M) Expenses 98 ($4.0M) Net assets 112 ($700k)2019 Revenue 106 ($4.3M) Expenses 103 ($4.2M) Net assets 136 ($848k)2020 Revenue 97 ($3.9M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 125 ($780k)2021 Revenue 99 ($4.0M) Expenses 98 ($4.0M) Net assets 136 ($853k)2022 Revenue 94 ($3.8M) Expenses 88 ($3.6M) Net assets 172 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 105 ($4.3M) Expenses 98 ($3.9M) Net assets 230 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 90 ($3.7M) Expenses 102 ($4.1M) Net assets 171 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 83 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 73 ($459k)
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Revenue (83)Expenses (100)Net assets (73)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 26% · 2022 20% · 2023 10% · 2024 6% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of RIVENDELL SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’17
$82k
’18
$139k
’19
−$72k
’20
$39k
’21
$246k
’22
$312k
’23
−$422k
’24
−$659k
’25
5.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $35k.

Funder
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'22
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total
FjcDAF
$100k
funders
1
3
3
4
5
8
3
4

4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 RIVENDELL 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

RIVENDELL SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 91% · 2020 66% · 2021 66% · 2022 53% · 2023 85% — 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

29% of RIVENDELL SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

64% of RIVENDELL SCHOOL's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
CA
MD
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like RIVENDELL SCHOOL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Riverdale Neighborhood House Inc77%Riverdale Country School Inc77%The Reece School76%Ohr Vdaas Rockland Institute for Special Education76%Rd #1 Werner Rd Ltd D/B/A Helping Hands School75%Riverrun Community Montessori75%Merrick Academy Queens Public Charter School75%The Rabenstein Learning Center National Jewish Resource Center75%

Nationally

The Rivendell School of Northern Colorado81%Riverhill School79%Rivendell Academy Inc79%Riverview School Inc79%The Riverbend Center for Montessori Excellence Inc78%Richmond Elementary School Inc78%Ridgefield Academy Inc78%Richmond Montessori School Inc77%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVENDELL 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds RIVENDELL SCHOOL?
RIVENDELL SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,312 to it, the largest being MORRIS AND ALMA SCHAPIRO FUND ($270,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIVENDELL SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $603,312 in grants to RIVENDELL SCHOOL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIVENDELL SCHOOL?
MORRIS AND ALMA SCHAPIRO FUND is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIVENDELL SCHOOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing