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WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN

WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,850 to it, the largest being THE THOMAS AND AGNES CARVEL FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$22M
Revenue FY2025
5
Funders on record
$58k
Grants received
$-1045040
Net assets
0/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 107 ($12M) Expenses 104 ($11M)2019 Revenue 106 ($11M) Expenses 104 ($11M)2020 Revenue 144 ($16M) Expenses 143 ($16M)2022 Revenue 149 ($16M) Expenses 155 ($17M)2023 Revenue 174 ($19M) Expenses 170 ($18M)2024 Revenue 189 ($20M) Expenses 186 ($20M)2025 Revenue 208 ($22M) Expenses 206 ($22M)
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Revenue (208)Expenses (206)

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
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 2%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$123k
17
$187k
18
$61k
19
$29k
20
$783k
22
$245k
23
$78k
24
$21k
25
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $750.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% 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 WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN’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

WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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

98% of WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
NC

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

17
19
22
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & 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 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN?
WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,850 to it, the largest being THE THOMAS AND AGNES CARVEL FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $57,850 in grants to WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN.
Who is the largest funder of WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN?
THE THOMAS AND AGNES CARVEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESTCHESTER SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing