New York · Nonprofit
Schools That Can
Schools That Can (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,481,330 to it, the largest being PERKINS MALO HUNTER FOUNDATION ($276,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $965k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Schools That Can does
Mission
Schools That Can provides culturally relevant career readiness programming that prioritizes real-world experiences to middle and high school students. Our mission is to build an education to employment (e2e) pathway that closes the opportunity and skills gap.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Career Skills - Schools That Cans Career Readiness program features a proprietary, 125-hour curriculum for high school students designed to prepare them for the world of work and post-secondary success. In the 6-unit program, students build foundational career skills through elevator pitches, mock interviews, and resume reviews. They experience networking with corporate volunteers across diverse industries, learn the basics of financial literacy by building their own budgets, and more. The e2e Curriculum is co-taught by an STC facilitator and can be implemented over the course of 3 years, or as stand-alone units, making the program flexible to a schools needs.
$600,091 spent78% of program spendingDesign Challenge Schools That Can works with teachers and students in middle and high schools to bring powerful real-world learning programming to our schools, empowering students to drive their own learning while developing social-emotional and technical skills that will help them pursue their passions in high school and beyond. Teams of middle and high school students engage in design thinking challenges to solve local community problems while their teachers gain aligned, cohort-based professional learning to incorporate design thinking as a problem-solving approach in their instructional practice. Businesses and nonprofits in each city serve as the client for the challenge and support local teams, including by providing professionals to mentor student design teams.
$89,816 spent12% of program spendingOther Programs & PLG In addition to STCs signature programs and Thought Leadership series, STC runs several local initiatives, many in collaboration with local companies and organizations, to support work-based learning. For instance, our STC offices have run various workforce development workshops and internship programs with local partners to expose their students to real-world situations that connect their education to potential employment opportunities.
$72,242 spent9% of program spendingThought Leadership Designed to bring together outstanding thought leaders, experts, and practitioners within the education to employment (e2e) space, this virtual series of live conversations focus on current topics and issues, including the evolving role of K-12 and University in education and what equity truly means for education. As an extension of these public-facing webinars, we have launched a series of more intimate Study Groups with University Provosts, K-12 School Leaders and K-12 Teachers to encourage conversations across sectors. We view these conversations as a crucial part of problem solving at the community level.
$10,437 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $772,586.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $1.8M (+37%).
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: 2022 10% · 2023 16% · 2024 9% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of Schools That Can’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Michael Druckman
Executive Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $103k → $156k.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Schools That Can’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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
Schools That Can has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
41% 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 Schools That Can.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 56% · 2019 40% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 38% · 2023 48% — 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
44% of Schools That Can's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
Schools That Can draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $544k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Schools That Can holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Schools That Can receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$95k
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 Schools That Can
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Schools That Can: 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 Schools That Can?
- Schools That Can (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,481,330 to it, the largest being PERKINS MALO HUNTER FOUNDATION ($276,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Schools That Can have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,481,330 in grants to Schools That Can, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Schools That Can?
- PERKINS MALO HUNTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $276,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Schools That Can 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 29 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