New York · Nonprofit
WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL
WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,600 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($77,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $106k
- Net assets
- $-442252
What Wildflower New York Charter School does
Mission
Wildflower New York Charter School will offer montessori educational environments in which children have the tools and freedom to do the great work of constructing themselves, led by teachers operating as social entrepreneurs. Our students will develop strong academic foundations and skills in the areas of critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication, and grow into curious, capable contributors to their communities and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wildflower New York Charter School (wnycs), located in the south bronx, new york, is a nonprofit education corporation chartered by the board of trustees of the state university of new york. The school was founded in 2019 and enrolled students for the first time in the fall of 2020.wnycs is a pre-k - grade 5 school. Enrollment is through a random lottery. In line with montessori practices, wnycs has carefully prepared environments that offer children beautiful, highly curated learning opportunities across multiple domains. The micro- school is child-centered, welcoming, and culturally relevant. The prepared environments foster student growth in math, reading, writing, agriculture, geography, biology, history, socio-emotional health, art, music, and more.
$2,455,186 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,455,186.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $787k to $23M (+2883%).
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: 2021 98% · 2022 91% · 2023 97% · 2024 99% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Chivona Newsome
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $36k → $39k.
From the IRS filings of WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER 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
WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 78% · 2023 51% — 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
WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER 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 WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL?
- WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,600 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($77,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,600 in grants to WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $77,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDFLOWER NEW YORK CHARTER 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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