New York · Nonprofit
ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION
ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,750,982 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($427,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $739k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Advantage Testing Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to advance the academic and professional aspirations of underrepresented students of modest means, thereby expanding our nation's leadership pool. We provide educational tutoring, standardized test preparation and academic counseling to low-income and other under-represented students and improve their access to institutions of higher learning such as leading colleges and law schools. The Advantage Testing Foundation works with such institutions to deliver special on-site programs and classes and makes contributions to other charitable organizations organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Trialstrials (the training and recruitment initiative for admission to leading law schools) is a fully subsidized summer study program for aspiring law students who have overcome adversity and whose socioeconomic backgrounds are currently underrepresented in the nation's leading law schools. Harvard law school and the nyu school of law partner with the Advantage Testing Foundation to deliver the annual residential program. Students who participate develop the skills and credentials they need to earn admission to law school. At the beginning of the program, students take a diagnostic lsat (the standardized admission exam for law school). The median starting lsat score for our students is at the 44th percentile. To date, the median test score increase for trials students who have taken the official lsat is more than 40 percentile points. Trials students have earned admission to all of the top 14 law schools in the nation including harvard, yale, nyu, stanford, columbia, and the university of chicago.
$214,718 spentof which $51,640 as grants29% of program spendingMath prize for girlsthe math prize for girls, the largest math prize for girls in the world, is an annual nationwide math competition created to 1) promote gender equity in mathematics by recognizing talented girls who excel in math, and 2) underscore the importance of mathematics to our nation's future.
$455,522 spentof which $74,000 as grants61% of program spendingLedathe Advantage Testing Foundation supports leda (leadership enterprise for a diverse america), a partnership with princeton university that consists of a rigorous summer college preparatory program and ongoing counseling. The program seeks to instill leadership skills in talented students of modest means from predominantly public schools nationwide. The at foundation also provides pro bono classroom sat and act preparation tutoring during this summer program.
$57,522 spentof which $2,500 as grants8% of program spendingPrep for prepthe foundation supports prep for prep, a leadership development program for new york city students of underrepresented minority backgrounds. In addition to financial support for prep for prep, the foundation provides pro bono classroom sat and act preparation for select prep for prep juniors during the academic year.
$17,417 spentof which $10,000 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $745,179.
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 2021 to 2022, from $418k to $15M (+3373%).
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 14% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $350k → $208k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION’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
ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2019 55% · 2020 77% · 2021 91% · 2022 92% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $837k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION 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 ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
10%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION: 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 ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION?
- ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,750,982 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($427,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,750,982 in grants to ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $427,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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