Ethical Culture Fieldston School

Overview

Mission

Provide a progressive education grounded in the study and practice of ethics, including ethics coursework and Community Service Learning, to help students take care of the world, themselves, and each other. At Ethical Culture and Fieldston Lower, our goal is to create a comprehensive experience for students to engage in activism, centered around raising awareness, advocating for social issues, engaging with service projects, and supporting causes within the surrounding community and beyond. Read more about Ethical Culture’s curriculum here and Fieldston Lower’s curriculum here. The focus on Ethics and service continues through Fieldston Middle, where classroom experiences are designed to prepare students to participate in service learning projects. Students also explore activism and allyship, and spend time considering the causes they want to support. Read more about Fieldston...

What it reported doing in 2024

Not applicable

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133873705
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2024
Website reviewed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Headquarters
New York, NY, USA
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

The verdict

- This form does not report enough financial and governance detail to rate the organization. That is normal for this form and is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 35
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 50%; rating input score 50; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Public policy transparency: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
  • Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Impact reporting controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
  • Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Public governance controls: 4 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Zakat policy transparency: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Operating reserve ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.