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SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3

SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3 (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,276 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($61,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$257k
Revenue FY2025
15
Funders on record
$302k
Grants received
$769k
Net assets
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%

Against its field

SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3 holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve33.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($185k) Expenses 100 ($217k) Net assets 100 ($415k)2022 Revenue 119 ($220k) Expenses 113 ($245k) Net assets 126 ($522k)2023 Revenue 168 ($310k) Expenses 130 ($282k) Net assets 132 ($550k)2024 Revenue 223 ($412k) Expenses 80 ($175k) Net assets 190 ($788k)2025 Revenue 139 ($257k) Expenses 127 ($276k) Net assets 185 ($769k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (139)Expenses (127)Net assets (185)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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
21
$25k
22
$29k
23
$237k
24
$18k
25
34
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $26k → $43k.

5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)52% 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 SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3’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

SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

51% 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 SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3.

20%
largest funder
53%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 93% · 2020 54% · 2021 56% · 2022 33% · 2023 49%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 SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

51% of SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3'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 $147k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 5 states.

NY
MA
NJ
NC
TX

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

17
18
20
21
22
23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k 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 15 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 SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3

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

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3: 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 SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3?
SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3 (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,276 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($61,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3 have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $302,276 in grants to SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL THE JOHN MELSER CHARRETTE SCHOOL PS 3 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 15funders 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