Virginia · Nonprofit
THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL
THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,154 to it, the largest being ARON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Independent Electrical Contractors Foundationlocal
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio match
- The Asia Societyportfolio match
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.
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.
4% of THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $10k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 SYCAMORE 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 SYCAMORE SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 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
THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
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.
- Independent Electrical Contractors FoundationlocalPA · funds 52 organizations near you
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Asia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Education Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Hope Impact Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Energy Investment Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perkins Malo Hunter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Antonio V Glassberg Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Incportfolio 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 SYCAMORE SCHOOL
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL: 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 SYCAMORE SCHOOL?
- THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,154 to it, the largest being ARON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $64,154 in grants to THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL?
- ARON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 5funders 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