New York · Nonprofit
University Plaza Nursery School
University Plaza Nursery School (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,594 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($85,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What University Plaza Nursery School does
Mission
University Plaza Nursery School is a parent run cooperative nursery school that seeks to provide a high quality preschool experience for children in the surrounding community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
University Plaza Nursery School (UPNS) is a parent cooperative nursery school in lower Manhattan serving families in the downtown area. The cooperative model requires parents to perform a variety of jobs from creating newsletters, to fund raising and admissions. During the 2024-2025 school year, we contracted with the NYC Department of Education to offer tuition free 3K and PreK programs. UPNS has served downtown families for over 50 years and is highly regarded amongst educators and community members for providing a high quality, age-appropriate and play based early childhood education.
$687,156 spent$926,325 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $687,156.
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.
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 $1.1M to $1.4M (+30%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 9% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $150 → $10k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 University Plaza Nursery 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
University Plaza Nursery School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 University Plaza Nursery School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 61% · 2022 37% · 2023 88% — 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
76% of University Plaza Nursery School's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $41k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k 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.
Organizations like University Plaza Nursery 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for University Plaza Nursery 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 University Plaza Nursery School?
- University Plaza Nursery School (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,594 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($85,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does University Plaza Nursery School have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $174,594 in grants to University Plaza Nursery School, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of University Plaza Nursery School?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like University Plaza Nursery 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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