New York · Nonprofit
SHIELD OF DAVID INC
SHIELD OF DAVID INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,446 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($45,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $137k
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Shield of David Inc does
Mission
Organized for the purpose of providing educational and other services to individuals who are developmentally disabled. Our mission is to work in partnership with families and communities to enable children and adults with developmental disabilities to lead meaningful lives. Our focus is on fostering each individual's independence as a full-fledged member of his or her family and community, and collaborating in families' life-long efforts to provide rich lives for their children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education services / school programs: provided to over 420 students. Preschool program provides multidisciplinary evaluations, special education and related services to children, ages 3 to 5 in a child centered classroom setting. Specialized instruction for children who display characteristics on the autism spectrum include structured teaching, aided language, and visual supports. Preschool also includes integrated classes that provide an opportunity for children with special needs to learn and play with typically developing children. Also, our school age program provides special education programming, person centered planning, speech, counseling, occupational and physical therapy to children ages 6 to 21 who have been diagnosed with a developmental disability.
$15,868,850 spent$15,314,770 earned by the program52% of program spendingDay habilitation / support services: full time adult day and supplemental evening programs serving over 500 clients where we provide support for a variety of group and individual interest and life goals. Center based and community activities provide life experiences to enhance opportunity, independence and inclusion in the communities. Saturday services provide enhanced opportunities for socialization, recreation and community inclusion. Supplemental services are provided for individuals who are involved in other day activities to enhance their ability to participate in the community.
$12,435,736 spent$14,307,696 earned by the program40% of program spendingClinic & other funding sources: provided to over 650 children and adults with developmental delay/disabilities. Services provided include psychological, social work, speech, rehabilitative counseling, occupational, physical therapy and nutritional counseling to individuals and groups. Specialty services include augmentative communication, evaluation and treatment, eating and swallowing evaluation and treatment and psychosexual assessment and treatment.
$2,487,637 spent$2,151,187 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,792,223.
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 2022 to 2023, from $19M to $29M (+54%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 26% · 2022 18% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of SHIELD OF DAVID INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Marni Sussman
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $28k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 SHIELD OF DAVID INC’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
SHIELD OF DAVID INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 SHIELD OF DAVID INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 82% — 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.
Where its funders are
85% of SHIELD OF DAVID INC'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SHIELD OF DAVID INC receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $137k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SHIELD OF DAVID INC
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHIELD OF DAVID INC: 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 SHIELD OF DAVID INC?
- SHIELD OF DAVID INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,446 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($45,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHIELD OF DAVID INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $137,446 in grants to SHIELD OF DAVID INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHIELD OF DAVID INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $45,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHIELD OF DAVID INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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