New York · Nonprofit
TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC
TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,343 to it, the largest being ZAYAS FOUNDATION INC ($187,532). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $191k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $476k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Trans Formative Schools Inc does
Mission
(a) To advocate for systemic societal change through education in order to help trans youth thrive because they feel loved, safe and seen; (b) To build resilient learning environments and form a community of educators, students and families-touched-by-transness; (c) To provide student support services and afterschool programming focused on academic support and enrichment, social-emotional learning, community building, student-led activism projects, affinity and allyship groups and identity exploration; (d) to support the eventual founding and flourishing of schools that will center transness and social justice; (e)t o conduct any and all lawful activities that may be useful in accomplishing the foregoing activities as the Board of Directors may determine from time to time in their sole and absolute discretion, except as restricted in the Bylaws of the Corporation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide student support services and afterschool programming focused on academic support and enrichment, social-emotional learning, community building, student-led activism projects, affinity and allyship groups and identity exploration
$178,761 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $178,761.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3k to $16k (+387%).
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.
100% of TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Chief executive
Alaina Daniels
Executive Director
Board chair
Raina Bien
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $38k → $242k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS 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
TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
66% of TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS 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 TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC?
- TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,343 to it, the largest being ZAYAS FOUNDATION INC ($187,532). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $476,343 in grants to TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC?
- ZAYAS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $187,532 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC 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.
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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 2024–2025), 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