Delaware · Nonprofit
Cohort Sistas Inc
Cohort Sistas Inc (Delaware) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,051 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $349k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Cohort Sistas Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to foster inclusive pathways to advanced research doctorates by enhancing the recruitment retention success and well-being of historically excluded students especially Black women.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sista Circle Mentorship Program: The Sista Circle Mentorship program provided culturally relevant discipline-based academic professional and personal development for 50 doctoral students.
$53,813 spentof which $3,457 as grants$56,391 earned by the program65% of program spendingMembership & Community: Our digital community platform is a safe and welcoming space for over 4,500 scholars to network collaborate and provide mutual support healing and encouragement across institutional disciplinary and geographic silos.
$8,155 spent$1,991 earned by the program10% of program spendingGraduate Fair: Our virtual Graduate School Fair bridges the gap between talented doctoral program applicants and universities committed to cultivating a representative graduate student body.
$102 spent$11,409 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther Program
$16,529 spent$300 earned by the program20% of program spendingSuccess Series
$4,192 spent$2,500 earned by the program5% of program spendingPodcast
$60 spent0% of program spendingCareer summit
$162 spent0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $83,013.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $59k to $8k (−86%).
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.
68% of Cohort Sistas Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Ijeoma Kola
Executive Director
Board chair
Ashley Schloss PhD
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $113k → $81k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Cohort Sistas 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
Cohort Sistas Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 Cohort Sistas Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 44% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
Cohort Sistas Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k 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
Cohort Sistas Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Cohort Sistas 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cohort Sistas 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 Cohort Sistas Inc?
- Cohort Sistas Inc (Delaware) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,051 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cohort Sistas Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $349,051 in grants to Cohort Sistas Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cohort Sistas Inc?
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cohort Sistas Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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