New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC
THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,225,998 to it, the largest being THE COPPER BEECH FOUNDATION INC ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What The Village School Inc does
Mission
Our mission, in partnership with teachers, parents and students, is to nurture a lifelong love of learning. Our "whole child" focus creates self-motivated, creative critical thinkers and kind, responsible global citizens. We are unflagging in our commitment to our students and strive to create an exceptional and authentic montessori environment, so that each student may achieve their maximum potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ensure all programs offer the highest quality education according to montessori standards. Increased innovation, quality assurance communication across the school community, and full enrollment.the village school is guided by the theory and practice of the montessori philosophy and believes that it is fundamentally important to:1. Foster a lifelong love of learning.2. Impart a challenging curriculum that supports and respects individual learning styles in multi-age classrooms.3. Educate the whole child by recognizing and respecting the physical, emotional, and intellectual individuality of each child.4. Nurture in each child creativity, independence, self-confidence, and the joy of discovery.5. Provide well-structured environments, order and orientation in classrooms, proper sequencing of materials, and a consistent educational approach.6. Encourage sensitivity and awareness for all people and cultures as well as for the global environment.7. Affirm and support the value of family-school partnerships by encouraging active family involvement.8. Develop a sense of community in and out of classrooms by encouraging cooperative learning, problem solving, and community service.
$5,049,637 spentof which $466,241 as grants$5,729,546 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,049,637.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $14M (−3%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Mary Lynch
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $17k → $207k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 VILLAGE 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 VILLAGE SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 VILLAGE SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 56% · 2019 41% · 2020 56% · 2021 47% · 2022 40% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $532k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $119 on record.
- TRUST FUND$119
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 VILLAGE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC?
- THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,225,998 to it, the largest being THE COPPER BEECH FOUNDATION INC ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,225,998 in grants to THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC?
- THE COPPER BEECH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VILLAGE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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