New York · Nonprofit
AdmissionSquad Inc
AdmissionSquad Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,010 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($108,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $283k
- Net assets
- $162k
What AdmissionSquad Inc does
Mission
The organization is a nonprofit organization on a mission to get talented middle schoolers from underrepresented backgrounds into the top 10% of new york city public high schools through test prep, application advisement and mentorship from graduates of top schools and highly sought-after career paths. Founded and directed by tai abrams, a graduate of bronx science and duke university, the organization aims to close the information gap for parents and close the content readiness gap for students. The organization believes that early awareness and preparation can dramatically change the admissions outcome for promising students in the high school application process.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Shsat summer and fall boot camp: admissionsquad has maintained an 80% success rate of placing talented, underserved students into new york citys most highly sought-after high schools. Out of 10 black students who placed into stuyvesant high school, two of those students came from admissionsquad. Our students typically attend the following high schools: stuyvesant high school, bronx science, brooklyn technical high school, bard early college high school, leon m goldstein, beacon high school and midwoods screened high school programs. Our students are well prepared for the rigor of attending a top nyc high school.admissionsquad hosted high school admissions workshops both in-person and virtual for almost 1,000 families to help close the information gap for families in school districts that have a low population of students matriculating into selective nyc high schools. These workshops helped to spread awareness to high-need areas and helped to identify students with the academic potential to place into an elite high school. Admissionsquad offered virtual programming to reach qualifying middle school students in all five boroughs, which has helped to expand the organizations reach.
$126,258 spent68% of program spendingEarly start program: admissionsquad recruits students from 5th, 6th or 7th grade to participate in a test preparation program that takes place in the spring semester and fall semester of each year. Students receive rigorous test preparation for the annual state exam and will gain early exposure to grade appropriate concepts that are tested on the specialized high school admissions test (shsat). Parents also receive an opportunity to attend parents workshops that provide early exposure to the top high school admissions process. Early start students are also invited to participate in school visits and mentorship opportunities to increase exposure and boost confidence in the process.
$59,137 spent32% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $185,395.
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 2019 to 2020, from $58k to $248k (+331%).
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.
35% of AdmissionSquad Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Taiesha Abrams
President & CEO
Board chair
Karisma Jay
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $70k → $43k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 AdmissionSquad Inc’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
AdmissionSquad Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 AdmissionSquad Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 25% · 2021 50% · 2023 59% — 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.
How long its funders stay
13% of AdmissionSquad Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
67% of AdmissionSquad Inc'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 $93k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
AdmissionSquad Inc has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AdmissionSquad Inc
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AdmissionSquad Inc: 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 AdmissionSquad Inc?
- AdmissionSquad Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,010 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($108,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AdmissionSquad Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $283,010 in grants to AdmissionSquad Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AdmissionSquad Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $108,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AdmissionSquad Inc 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 10 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