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TIEGERMAN SCHOOL

TIEGERMAN SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,193 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($236,228). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$51M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$551k
Net assets
$3.0M
8/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Tiegerman School does

Mission

At tiegerman, our mission is to identify children with language and autism spectrum disorders early to provide educational programs which will prepare them for a world filled with words, sentences, stories and messages. Language is a symbol system; it provides the means to reach out to the world. It is the most important skill that a child must learn early in life. Language provides the foundation for socializing, reading, questioning, writing and thinking. We use the tiegerman language method (tlm) which is designed to stimulate and challenge children's language development. We believe that "language is everything and everywhere," so our children need to be immersed in language activities to learn. We teach children to talk in order to reach the person inside.tiegerman is also committed to increasing public awareness about the unique needs of these children, since they are often misdiagnosed and misplaced in educational programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During the year-ended june 30, 2025, tiegerman provided special educational services to more than 400 school age children and 200 preschool children in either a self contained or integrated environment. In addition, the school provided day-care services, multi-disciplinary evaluations for preschool children, provided related services and 1:1 aide services to preschool children with special needs, and provided early intervention services to children birth to 3.

    $45,398,811 spent$48,947,822 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $45,398,811.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($33M) Expenses 100 ($33M) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2018 Revenue 109 ($36M) Expenses 108 ($36M) Net assets 115 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 117 ($39M) Expenses 116 ($39M) Net assets 122 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 108 ($36M) Expenses 108 ($36M) Net assets 122 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 111 ($37M) Expenses 117 ($39M) Net assets 32 ($813k)2022 Revenue 126 ($42M) Expenses 117 ($39M) Net assets 143 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 128 ($43M) Expenses 128 ($43M) Net assets 136 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 150 ($50M) Expenses 152 ($50M) Net assets 117 ($2.9M)2025 Revenue 153 ($51M) Expenses 153 ($51M) Net assets 118 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (153)Net assets (118)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $37M (+43%).

$10M
$18M
$20M
$26M
$37M
$33M
$33M
$38M
$37M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 19% · 2021 3% · 2022 11% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$39k
’17
$380k
’18
$163k
’19
$13k
’20
−$2.3M
’21
$2.8M
’22
−$180k
’23
−$490k
’24
$24k
’25
1.7
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.

Chief executive

Ellenmorris Tiegerman

CEO

Board chair

Jay Parker

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed212122212222242023
Joined·+3+1+2+5+3+6+0+4
No longer listed·30343441
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $98k → $158k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 TIEGERMAN 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

TIEGERMAN SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

56% 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 TIEGERMAN SCHOOL.

43%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 84% · 2019 52% · 2020 42% · 2021 77% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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

67% of TIEGERMAN SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

95% of TIEGERMAN SCHOOL's grant income comes from New York funders.

MI
NY
NJ
DC
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k 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

Organizations like TIEGERMAN 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.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Tiegerman Community Services Inc · exempt
  • Tiegerman Philanthropic Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds TIEGERMAN SCHOOL?
TIEGERMAN SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,193 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($236,228). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TIEGERMAN SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $551,193 in grants to TIEGERMAN SCHOOL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIEGERMAN SCHOOL?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $236,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIEGERMAN SCHOOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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