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SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN

SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,254 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$333k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$115k
Net assets
$419k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Spruce Street School Ps 397 Parent Teacher Assn does

Mission

To provide enrichment programs and other support for spruce street school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operating expenses

    $347,957 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $347,957.

02The 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 ($418k) Expenses 100 ($344k) Net assets 100 ($411k)2018 Revenue 105 ($439k) Expenses 116 ($397k) Net assets 110 ($452k)2019 Revenue 101 ($424k) Expenses 114 ($390k) Net assets 118 ($486k)2020 Revenue 52 ($216k) Expenses 82 ($281k) Net assets 102 ($420k)2021 Revenue 20 ($84k) Expenses 6 ($22k) Net assets 117 ($483k)2022 Revenue 71 ($297k) Expenses 59 ($204k) Net assets 140 ($576k)2023 Revenue 65 ($270k) Expenses 119 ($410k) Net assets 106 ($436k)2024 Revenue 63 ($262k) Expenses 77 ($264k) Net assets 106 ($435k)2025 Revenue 80 ($333k) Expenses 101 ($348k) Net assets 102 ($419k)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (101)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

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 $576k to $436k (−24%).

$411k
$452k
$486k
$420k
$483k
$576k
$436k
$435k
$419k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

114% of SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$74k
’17
$41k
’18
$33k
’19
−$65k
’20
$63k
’21
$93k
’22
−$140k
’23
−$2k
’24
−$15k
’25
15
months of
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.

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Listed131819111113754
Joined·+10+1+3+5+6+1+5+3
No longer listed·501154774
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN’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

SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN.

54%
largest funder
95%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 99% · 2022 62% · 2023 37% — 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

96% of SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
NC

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

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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve14.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

0
board members
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN?
SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,254 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $115,254 in grants to SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $62,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL PS 397 PARENT TEACHER ASSN 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 7 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