New York · Nonprofit
THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,470 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($221,170). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $426k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,673 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017
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.
- JEWISHColoradoshared funders
- Chiefs for Changeportfolio match
- Kinman-Oldfield Fam Fdn Trportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $264k → $14k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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 SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 47% · 2019 52% · 2020 97% · 2021 86% · 2022 55% · 2023 93% — 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 SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
60% of THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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 $171k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 391 organizations that share them.
- JEWISHColoradoshared fundersCO · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Chiefs for Changeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinman-Oldfield Fam Fdn Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mr Holland's Opus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Suny Impact Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eastman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GenYOUTH Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Durotech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zeron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Excellent Schools New Mexicoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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.
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 SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,470 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($221,170). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $426,470 in grants to THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $221,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 11funders 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