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THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,125,673 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,414,563). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$33M
Funders on record
43
Grants received
$8.1M
Net assets
$123M
28/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What The Buckley School in the City of New York does

Mission

The goals of the school are that every boy learn fundamental skills, gain confidence through disciplined thought and actions, develop personal integrity and respect for others, and discover the joy of learning and the satisfaction of pursuing excellence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The school provided education to 373 boys in grades kindergarten to ninth and continued to fulfill its core mission of developing fundamental skills, integrity, respect and the joy of learning and satisfying the pursuit of excellence.

    $21,336,720 spentof which $1,748,300 as grants$23,755,776 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,336,720.

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 ($26M) Expenses 100 ($31M) Net assets 100 ($112M)2018 Revenue 96 ($25M) Expenses 106 ($33M) Net assets 98 ($109M)2019 Revenue 101 ($26M) Expenses 109 ($34M) Net assets 94 ($105M)2020 Revenue 91 ($24M) Expenses 91 ($28M) Net assets 89 ($100M)2021 Revenue 129 ($34M) Expenses 90 ($28M) Net assets 112 ($125M)2022 Revenue 114 ($30M) Expenses 88 ($27M) Net assets 90 ($100M)2023 Revenue 98 ($26M) Expenses 85 ($26M) Net assets 91 ($101M)2024 Revenue 118 ($31M) Expenses 89 ($28M) Net assets 99 ($110M)2025 Revenue 126 ($33M) Expenses 93 ($29M) Net assets 110 ($123M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (93)Net assets (110)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 2020 to 2021, from $113M to $139M (+22%).

$135M
$128M
$121M
$113M
$139M
$114M
$116M
$124M
$137M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5.0M
’17
−$7.7M
’18
−$7.5M
’19
−$4.4M
’20
$5.9M
’21
$2.4M
’22
−$924k
’23
$3.0M
’24
$4.0M
’25
8.6
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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Listed393536353837383636
Joined·+3+5+4+4+3+4+5+2
No longer listed·74514372
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $702k → $910k.

21 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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

THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

42%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 68% · 2019 76% · 2020 33% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% — 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

70% of THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

95% of THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK'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 $425k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 7 states.

ME
NY
MA
PA
VA
DE
NC

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

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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

THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve8.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 21%Fundraising 5%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK?
THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,125,673 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,414,563). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $8,125,673 in grants to THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,414,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 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 43 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