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THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL

THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,344 to it, the largest being JAMES R BURROUGHS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($22,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$76k
Net assets
$1.3M
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What The Sherman Oaks Nursery School does

Mission

Pre-school Nursery School

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Pre-School Nursery School serving a student body of 130 students during the year.

    $1,831,008 spent$1,756,303 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,831,008.

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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 97 ($1.6M) Expenses 104 ($1.4M) Net assets 108 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 96 ($1.6M) Expenses 106 ($1.4M) Net assets 117 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 77 ($1.2M) Expenses 113 ($1.5M) Net assets 95 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 52 ($839k) Expenses 77 ($1.0M) Net assets 79 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 79 ($1.3M) Expenses 94 ($1.3M) Net assets 80 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 97 ($1.6M) Expenses 96 ($1.3M) Net assets 101 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 105 ($1.7M) Expenses 129 ($1.8M) Net assets 97 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 114 ($1.9M) Expenses 135 ($1.8M) Net assets 99 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (135)Net assets (99)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 $1.2M to $1.5M (+24%).

$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.5M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$265k
’17
$158k
’18
$125k
’19
−$298k
’20
−$206k
’21
$9k
’22
$275k
’23
−$58k
’24
$28k
’25
7.8
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.

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Listed151515161314755
Joined·+7+3+1+2+6+3+0+2
No longer listed·730551022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL’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 SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

29%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 63% · 2020 87% · 2021 37% · 2022 72% · 2023 52% — 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

40% of THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

62% of THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.

IL
NY
MA
CA
KY

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

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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 SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
0%
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 SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL?
THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,344 to it, the largest being JAMES R BURROUGHS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($22,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $76,344 in grants to THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL?
JAMES R BURROUGHS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 10 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