New York · Nonprofit
THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,417,201 to it, the largest being EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE OF WNY INC ($895,180). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What The Park School of Buffalo does
Mission
The school engages the student in a diverse and creative community that nurtures the joy and responsibility of active learning in all, from our youngest learners to our graduates, who leave with the skills essential to college success and the confidence to serve and lead.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The park school is an independent school, teaching prek including montessori and kindergarten through 12th grade during the normal academic year. Park provides a rigorous academic program in an educational climate. All park graduates are accepted to college. With intentionally small class sizes, each student has ample opportunity to learn through experience with personal attention from dedicated teachers.
$6,565,178 spentof which $2,153,750 as grants$6,043,186 earned by the program87% of program spendingThe park school offers a 6-week summer program managed by certified teachers and qualified instructors. Activities include swimming, athletics, nature studies, music, crafts, technology, and drama. Campers are provided with a nutritious lunch and snacks. The program is open to the general public, early education through grade 8.
$950,837 spent$1,476,911 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,516,015.
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.
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 $12M to $12M (+8%).
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: 2022 18% · 2023 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $152k → $389k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Park School of Buffalo Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO raised.
From the IRS filings of THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO’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 PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 48% · 2019 45% · 2020 61% · 2021 67% · 2022 58% · 2023 32% — 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
60% of THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
94% of THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO'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. $1.1M 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.
Against its field
THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Park School of Buffalo Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO?
- THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,417,201 to it, the largest being EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE OF WNY INC ($895,180). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,417,201 in grants to THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO?
- EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE OF WNY INC is the largest funder on record, with $895,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO 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 22 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