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THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC
THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,255 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($261,575). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $694k
- Net assets
- $17M
What The Alumni and Friends of Fiorello H Laguardia High School Inc does
Mission
Alumni & friends of laguardia hs of music and art & performing arts (a&f) mission is to continue and enhance the world-class arts education at laguardia by providing funds to the all studios (art, dance, drama, music, and technical theater); to ensure that all students, regardless of family income, can successfully pursue their talents through several award and scholarship programs; funds to the studio current needs, and to keep alumni connected with each other and the school through newsletters, a website, and reunions.funds to the school and its students come from a&f's $15.9 million endowment created by generous donors. Proceeds from this endowment provide $500,000 in funding, for scholarship and our arts programs. A&f's goal is to grow this endowment further to provide even more assistance, particularly as the school faces further budget cuts and its needs are greater than ever.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Student support in the form of annual student awards, need-based summer study, student aid awards and mini grants:annual student awards - a&f presents approximately 200 monetary awards each year to laguardia students based on merit and/or financial need.needs based summer study - a&f provides funding for 80 students each year so that they can attend summer programs. These include such prestigious programs as the vermont studio cente, the berklee college of music songwriting program, the young artists tanglewood orchestra, the boston university high school honors summer program, and the manhattan school of music camp.student aid awards - a&f maintains an emergency fund so that it is able to provide equipment and supplies when emergencies aarise for such items as computers , instruments, studio supplies, clothing and transportation.mini grants - a&f's mini grants fund special projects that enhance curricular studies.
$379,237 spentof which $311,593 as grants$67,729 earned by the program58% of program spendingSchool support in the form of department grants, master classes, instrument repair, performance support, digital media program and in-kind donation: department grants - a&f give annual, unrestricte grants to equip each art studio with the latest technology, equipment and supplies. Master classes - a&f provides funds for guest artists and master teachers to enhance artistic programming through first-hand, specialized industry knowledge. Master teachers have included members of the new york philharmonic and the metropolitan opera; renown jazz musicians like mark serman; broadway stars such as al pacino, alan rickman and edie falco; lead dancers from the american ballet theater, the joffrey ballet, new york city ballet, dance theater of harlem, alvin ailey, american ballet theater and martha graham dance company; and internationally recognized artists including wolf kahn and milton glaser. A&f pays for special accompanist for vocal classes, dance classes, musical theater classes and performances. This funding also provides a stipend for private lessons for students with financial needs. Instrument repair - laguardia has a fully-staffed instrument repair shop that manages the majority…
$196,158 spentof which $161,169 as grants30% of program spendingA&f maintains a data base on the alumni from laguardia high school and its two predecessor schools - the high school of music & art and the high school of performing arts and keeps alumni in contact with each other and the school through quarterly newsletters, a website, a facebbook site, reunions and invitations to school performances and events.
$78,463 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $653,858.
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.
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 $8.3M to $13M (+62%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $82k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL 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
THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 66% · 2020 64% · 2021 63% · 2022 30% · 2023 84% — 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
22% of THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
88% of THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL 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 $82k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $613k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC?
- THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,255 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($261,575). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $694,255 in grants to THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $261,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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