Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SHERIDAN SCHOOL
SHERIDAN SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $898,387 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($323,752). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $898k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Sheridan School does
Mission
Sheridan School's mission is to create an inclusive, vibrant learning community. We take joy in learning, show kindness and empathy towards others, embrace new experiences and ideas, and continually seek a deeper and fuller understanding of the world. We seek to inspire self-knowledge, intellectual discipline, and personal integrity in our community members. At both our city and mountain campuses, the sheridan community challenges itself to live the ideal of respect for oneself, others, and the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education program: as an accredited school, we provide an education for up to 230 children from kindergarten to grade eight at our city and mountain campuses. We seek to nurture and challenge children through a collection of academic subjects and enriching activities that encourage children to take responsibility for their learning and social development.
$7,138,752 spentof which $1,717,882 as grants$9,843,958 earned by the program73% of program spendingSummer camp: the school conducts a summer camp in three two-week sessions of up to 230 children ages 3 to 16 each summer. Children develop new skills, special talents, emerging interests and self-confidence by exploration and celebration of the visual and performing arts, culinary arts, and sports. Because of the construction of a new addition starting in december 2024, accompanied by building-wide renovations from june 2025 through august 2025, the decision was made not to run a summer camp during the summer of 2025. As a result, there were no camp revenues for june 2025 to report in this tax return. Summer camp programs are resuming for the summer of 2026.
$473,812 spentof which $47,732 as grants$736,777 earned by the program5% of program spendingAfter school program: the after school programs mirror the school's child-oriented philosophy; children are encouraged to pursue their individual interests. Within the program, children may focus on educational, artistic, or physical activities, including enrichment classes, study hall, games, and art projects. The program also includes structured activities for half- and full-day programs during conference days or due to early dismissal from school.
$407,012 spentof which $59,836 as grants$378,959 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program services: support services: during the school year, the school provides daily nutritious hot lunch and snacks for all students, faculty, and staff.
$1,825,448 spent$109,023 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,845,024.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $21M (+59%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of SHERIDAN SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
Pavan Khoobchandani
Board chair & president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $83k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 SHERIDAN 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
SHERIDAN SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 SHERIDAN SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 60% · 2019 37% · 2020 57% · 2021 40% · 2022 51% · 2023 38% — 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
73% of SHERIDAN SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
53% of SHERIDAN 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 $422k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k 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
SHERIDAN SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SHERIDAN 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHERIDAN 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 SHERIDAN SCHOOL?
- SHERIDAN SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $898,387 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($323,752). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHERIDAN SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $898,387 in grants to SHERIDAN SCHOOL, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHERIDAN SCHOOL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $323,752 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHERIDAN SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 17 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