Illinois · Nonprofit
Partnership Scholars Program
Partnership Scholars Program (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,954 to it, the largest being The Oder Family Foundation Inc ($276,050). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $813k
- Net assets
- $0
What Partnership Scholars Program does
Mission
Our services include mentoring, educational & cultural enrichment activities, and college access guidance. Partnership Scholars Program offers students the skills, knowledge and support they need to prepare for, enter, and graduate from college. Students graduate from our Scholars Program in possession of the knowledge and skills they need to achieve success in college, career and life - and to build the future they dream of.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Partnership Scholars Program serves students from two different communities in southern California. We offer students the skills, knowledge and support they need to prepare for, enter, and graduate from college. Our services include mentoring; educational and cultural enrichment activities; and college access guidance. Specifically, we pair students with highly qualified mentors, who build positive & sustained relationships with students, and interact regularly with them, communicating about school, college and life. We provide students with a host of enrichment activities - college visits, educational field trips and more - to bridge the opportunity divide, expand students' horizons and broaden their worldview. The experiences we provide further support students' entry (Continuation Schedule O)into and graduation from college. We help to level the academic playing field by ensuring students enroll in SAT & ACT test-preparation classes and in academically rigorous courses. We help participants obtain any necessary academic tutoring as well as provide them with educational materials and supplies, as needed. We also provide college-access guidance to students, helping them navigate…
$392,359 spentof which $22,456 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $392,359.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $524k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 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
Lisa Ruben
Executive Director
Board chair
Terryl Martin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $210k → $43k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Partnership Scholars Program’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
Partnership Scholars Program has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 30% · 2020 31% · 2021 39% · 2022 68% · 2023 81% — 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
31% of Partnership Scholars Program's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
Partnership Scholars Program draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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 Partnership Scholars Program: 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 Partnership Scholars Program?
- Partnership Scholars Program (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,954 to it, the largest being The Oder Family Foundation Inc ($276,050). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Partnership Scholars Program have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $812,954 in grants to Partnership Scholars Program, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Partnership Scholars Program?
- The Oder Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $276,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Partnership Scholars Program find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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