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THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD

THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD (New York) receives grants from 212 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,899,172 to it, the largest being THE CHASE AND STEPHANIE COLEMAN FOUNDATION ($12,050,000). 158 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.

$69M
Revenue FY2025
212
Funders on record
$55M
Grants received
$262M
Net assets
158/212 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD is better cushioned than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($58M) Expenses 100 ($48M) Net assets 100 ($224M)2018 Revenue 108 ($62M) Expenses 103 ($49M) Net assets 105 ($235M)2019 Revenue 109 ($63M) Expenses 104 ($50M) Net assets 109 ($244M)2020 Revenue 94 ($54M) Expenses 103 ($49M) Net assets 113 ($252M)2021 Revenue 101 ($58M) Expenses 113 ($54M) Net assets 117 ($263M)2022 Revenue 111 ($64M) Expenses 134 ($64M) Net assets 114 ($254M)2023 Revenue 109 ($63M) Expenses 146 ($70M) Net assets 113 ($252M)2024 Revenue 114 ($66M) Expenses 149 ($71M) Net assets 114 ($255M)2025 Revenue 119 ($69M) Expenses 149 ($71M) Net assets 117 ($262M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (149)Net assets (117)Peer revenue range

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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 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.

$9.9M
17
$13M
18
$13M
19
$5.3M
20
$4.5M
21
$111k
22
$6.6M
23
$5.7M
24
$2.2M
25
4.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 62 funders to 108 funders, grant income fell $6.4M → $5.8M.

29 of 212 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 THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 212 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 CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

53% 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 CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD.

22%
largest funder
47%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 53% · 2019 24% · 2020 27% · 2021 26% · 2022 26% · 2023 17%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

51% of THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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

53% of THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD'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 $26M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from New York funders.

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
NC
TX
FL

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

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21
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23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 212 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 17%Fundraising 5%

Governance

23
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD?
THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD (New York) receives grants from 212 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,899,172 to it, the largest being THE CHASE AND STEPHANIE COLEMAN FOUNDATION ($12,050,000). 158 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 THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD have?
IRS filings report 212 organizations giving $54,899,172 in grants to THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD, 158 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD?
THE CHASE AND STEPHANIE COLEMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD 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.

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 212funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing