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RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC

RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,206,762 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($950,046). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.2M
Funders on record
45
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$3.2M
24/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Raising Expectations Inc does

Mission

Raising expectations empowers youth in crisis by elevating academic, social and civic expectations to facilitate high school graduation and post secondary plans that can be actualized.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided drop in supportive school year and summer academic, mentoring and enrichment services to 120 middle and high school youth attending three locations that raising expectations supports via the at promise centers.

    $276,787 spent
    29% of program spending
  2. Project stemware: 100% of seniors graduated high school on time and 86% progressed with clearly defined post-secondary plans reflecting the strength of raising expectations academic support, mentoring, accountability, and college and career readiness programming.

    $250,205 spent
    26% of program spending
  3. Successfully completed the second cohort of the real estate enrichment program (reep) in partnership with stockbridge by providing youth with hands-on exposure to real estate, financial literacy and career pathways in a high-growth industry. Supported 25 parents/guardians (125 family members) with housing, food access and utility assistance to strengthen family stability and student success.

    $243,635 spent
    26% of program spending
  4. Youthwork: employed 55 high school and college students in a 6-week summer career workplace program earning over $93,000 in wages through external partnerships.

    $176,358 spent
    19% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $946,985.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($524k) Expenses 100 ($491k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2018 Revenue 129 ($674k) Expenses 124 ($608k) Net assets 270 ($109k)2019 Revenue 111 ($580k) Expenses 119 ($586k) Net assets 256 ($104k)2020 Revenue 149 ($782k) Expenses 109 ($535k) Net assets 945 ($383k)2021 Revenue 156 ($819k) Expenses 149 ($730k) Net assets 672 ($272k)2022 Revenue 214 ($1.1M) Expenses 197 ($969k) Net assets 1249 ($506k)2023 Revenue 220 ($1.2M) Expenses 211 ($1.0M) Net assets 1612 ($653k)2024 Revenue 505 ($2.6M) Expenses 218 ($1.1M) Net assets 5348 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 412 ($2.2M) Expenses 232 ($1.1M) Net assets 7977 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (412)Expenses (232)Net assets (7977)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $2.8M (+127%).

$45k
$114k
$108k
$460k
$456k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$2.8M
$3.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 17% · 2019 19% · 2020 1% · 2022 88% · 2024 87% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’17
$66k
’18
−$6k
’19
$247k
’20
$89k
’21
$152k
’22
$121k
’23
$1.6M
’24
$1.0M
’25
22
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.

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Listed7111115141591212
Joined·+6+5+7+3+1+3+3+0
No longer listed·25340900
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $155k → $783k.

5 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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

RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

56% 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 RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC.

23%
largest funder
37%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 79% · 2019 75% · 2020 39% · 2021 42% · 2022 43% · 2023 19% — 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

47% of RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

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

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 6%Fundraising 11%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC?
RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,206,762 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($950,046). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,206,762 in grants to RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $950,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC find more funders?
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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 45 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing