New York · Nonprofit
THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT
THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT (New York) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,971,753 to it, the largest being THE VANDERBILT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($329,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $635k
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What The Childrens Storefront does
Mission
Established for educational purposes, the children's storefront is committed to deeply improving the lives of children through early education innovation. Having made a lasting mark on the local education landscape over several decades, the children's storefront is now focusing on high-impact ways to promote the early development of children during their critical first thousand days of life, laying a solid foundation in a child's earliest days for lifelong success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
This year, the children's storefront launched our in-person playspace and expanded our early childhood program. To date, we have served over 200 families with babies and toddlers up to age three. Both our virtual and in-person play and learn program provide a safe and nurturing community, family-focused resources, and facilitative coaching from early childhood development specialists. Our coaching focuses on strategies to support healthy brain development, and it is offered in weekly sessions that include music, reading, art, and other developmentally-appropriate activities. The community response has been overwhelmingly positive, with the majority of our families reaching us through word-of-mouth referrals and participants sharing that they have a better understanding of how play and communication strengthens their child's brain.
$701,166 spent$15,232 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $701,166.
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 $2.2M to $5.4M (+142%).
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 14% · 2018 17% · 2021 6% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Lindsey Cosgrove
Executive director
Board chair
Robert T Rylee
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 24 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $376k → $263k.
9 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 CHILDRENS STOREFRONT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 CHILDRENS STOREFRONT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
39% 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 CHILDRENS STOREFRONT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 26% · 2019 17% · 2020 50% · 2021 30% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% — growing more concentrated.
“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 CHILDRENS STOREFRONT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
77% of THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $623k 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.
Organizations like THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
35%
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 CHILDRENS STOREFRONT?
- THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT (New York) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,971,753 to it, the largest being THE VANDERBILT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($329,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $1,971,753 in grants to THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT?
- THE VANDERBILT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $329,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT 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 54 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