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KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC

KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,884 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($235,685). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$286k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$813k
Net assets
$207k
14/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 90%
01What it does

What Keys 2 Success Inc does

Mission

Keys 2 success brings quality music education to students starting in pre-k in the most underserved areas of newark. Our free, daily piano lessons are delivered in a group setting in the students' own environment, where teachers and volunteers work to remove barriers and support students as they develop into future leaders

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Keys 2 success brings quality music education to students starting in pre-k in the most underserved areas of newark. Our free, daily piano lessons are delivered in a group setting in the students' own environment, where teachers and volunteers work to remove barriers and support students as they develop into future leaders

    $211,893 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $211,893.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($37k) Expenses 100 ($40k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2019 Revenue 144 ($53k) Expenses 135 ($53k) Net assets 99 ($28k)2020 Revenue 285 ($105k) Expenses 207 ($82k) Net assets 182 ($52k)2021 Revenue 435 ($161k) Expenses 304 ($120k) Net assets 324 ($92k)2022 Revenue 552 ($204k) Expenses 511 ($202k) Net assets 331 ($94k)2023 Revenue 797 ($294k) Expenses 507 ($200k) Net assets 660 ($188k)2024 Revenue 927 ($342k) Expenses 810 ($320k) Net assets 766 ($218k)2025 Revenue 775 ($286k) Expenses 753 ($298k) Net assets 728 ($207k)
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Revenue (775)Expenses (753)Net assets (728)Peer revenue range

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 $94k to $188k (+100%).

$28k
$28k
$52k
$92k
$94k
$188k
$218k
$207k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’18
−$261
’19
$24k
’20
$40k
’21
$2k
’22
$94k
’23
$22k
’24
−$12k
’25
5.5
months of
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.

2022202320242025
Listed5568
Joined·+2+1+3
No longer listed·201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $28k → $210k.

8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 KEYS 2 SUCCESS 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

KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

85% 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 KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC.

29%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 46% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — 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

75% of KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

79% of KEYS 2 SUCCESS 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 $172k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states.

NY
PA
NJ
CT
MO
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $640k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like KEYS 2 SUCCESS 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 17%Fundraising 11%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 21 states

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC?
KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,884 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($235,685). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $812,884 in grants to KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $235,685 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 21 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