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THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC

THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,802 to it, the largest being FJC ($39,861). 4 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
$14M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$69k
Net assets
$4.7M
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Community School Inc does

Mission

The Community School Inc. Is an approved new jersey state department of education private school for the disabled. The school is approved to serve pupils classified as "eligible for special education and related services" placed in mild to moderate learning and/or language disabilities special class programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of a school for disabled children serving pupils who are classified as eligible for special education and related services with learning and/or language disabilities. The school has an enrollment of approximately 300 students and is in session for 180 days of pupil instruction for the ten month period from september to june.

    $12,917,011 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,917,011.

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 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($6.4M)2018 Revenue 105 ($14M) Expenses 101 ($14M) Net assets 102 ($6.5M)2019 Revenue 107 ($14M) Expenses 103 ($14M) Net assets 104 ($6.7M)2020 Revenue 107 ($14M) Expenses 105 ($14M) Net assets 104 ($6.7M)2021 Revenue 104 ($14M) Expenses 104 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($6.4M)2022 Revenue 96 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 85 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 99 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 78 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 104 ($14M) Expenses 103 ($14M) Net assets 75 ($4.8M)2025 Revenue 109 ($14M) Expenses 107 ($15M) Net assets 73 ($4.7M)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (107)Net assets (73)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 $7.7M to $16M (+108%).

$9.0M
$8.3M
$8.4M
$8.9M
$8.5M
$7.7M
$16M
$15M
$14M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$329k
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$144k
’18
$113k
’19
$13k
’20
−$288k
’21
−$897k
’22
−$448k
’23
−$163k
’24
−$166k
’25
1.3
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.

Board chair

Charles A Amundsen

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed211919191817161718
Joined·+1+0+2+1+2+1+2+4
No longer listed·30223213
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $15k.

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total
FjcDAF
$40k
funders
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3 of 5 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 COMMUNITY 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC.

58%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 94% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

95% of THE COMMUNITY 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 $4k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states.

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

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $69k to it.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

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

Government funding THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $314k on record.

State$314k
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Top programs
  • FEDERAL$312k
  • STATE AID$1k
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$623

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC

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 Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC?
THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,802 to it, the largest being FJC ($39,861). 4 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $68,802 in grants to THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC?
FJC is the largest funder on record, with $39,861 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 5 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