New York · Nonprofit
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,829,223 to it, the largest being The American-Scandinavian Foundation ($947,390). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $88M
What United Nations International School does
Mission
Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the United Nations International School (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence, innovation, creativity and cross-cultural communication to educate and inspire its students to become an active force in shaping a better world: peaceful, compassionate and suistainable.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tutorial house college admmissions results for the class of 2025 continue to bring distinction to the unis community. 125 students enrollled in colleges in the united states and abroad and an additional 4 are fulfilling their military service requirements or taking a gap year. Our students are attending the most prestigious universities worldwide. Unis offers the international baccalaureate (ib) diploma; the objective of the ib is to provide students with a balanced and rigorous education, to facilitate geographic and cultural mobility, and to promote international understanding. Candidates follow an intensive prescribed curriculum in grades 11-12 that, upon completion, is equivalent to the first year of college. In the class of 2025, 129 students participated in the ib program; 122 students sat for the ib diploma; 116 students earned the diploma (95.1% pass rate, the world pass rate is 81.3%).
$67,236,927 spentof which $1,472,357 as grants$71,983,323 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $67,236,927.
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.
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 $81M to $96M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Daniel Brenner
Executive director
Board chair
Izumi Nakamitsu
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $150k → $303k.
9 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL 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
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 66% · 2019 64% · 2020 60% · 2021 57% · 2022 42% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
89% of UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL'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. $607k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
- UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,829,223 to it, the largest being The American-Scandinavian Foundation ($947,390). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,829,223 in grants to UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
- The American-Scandinavian Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $947,390 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL 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.
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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 28 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