California · Nonprofit
RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED
RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $621,746 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($447,075). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $521k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $622k
- Net assets
- $941k
What Rise Scholars Incorporated does
Mission
To empower students at hamilton school to realize their full personal and academic potential by providing them with an array of targeted and thoughtful curricular and co-curricular opportunities that support the development of a growth mindset, a positive attitude, and high achievement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Chess program-rise continued to provide year-round chess instruction and competitive opportunities for hamilton k-8 students. In 2025, rise sent a team of 10 students-five boys and five girls-to the us chess federation supernationals in orlando, florida, the nations's largest scholastic chess tournament and an event held only once every four years. The rise hamilton team earned 4th and 13th place finishes in their respective divisions, and two students earned individual medals. The program continues to expand access to competitive chess for students who have traditionally been underrepresented in the sport, particularly girls and latino students.
$188,812 spent33% of program spendingAthletics program-rise continued to provide organized athletics for hamilton students, including soccer, basketball, cross country, volleyball, and track and field. In 2025, rise's athletic director was instrumental in helping establish a novato soccer league, providing students with more structured and competitive game opportunities. Rise's middle school boys soccer team went on to win the league tournament. Through its athletic programs, rise provides students with opportunities to build teamwork, confidence, sportsmanship, physical fitness and a stronger connection to their school community.
$136,765 spent24% of program spendingRise intervention-in 2025 rise expanded its math intervention program to begin in first grade, rather than waiting until later elementary grades. The change was made in response to persistent challenges in mathematics achievement and with the goal of building confidence and strong foundational skills before students developed negative or fixed attitudes toward math. Rise identified the lower-performing 50% of first-grade students and provided individualized, one-to-one math tutoring. The program produced an exceptional result: every participating student finished the year at or above the academic level needed to enter second grade. Rise also continued its reading intervention program at the second-grade level, providing individualized support to students needing additional help with literacy.
$58,017 spent10% of program spendingDespite major construction at hamilton k-8 that prevented rise from operating its traditional summer program, rise successfuly adapted by offering a three-week mini-summerhawks program. Students in grades 2-4 received intensive academic instruction with 7-9 tutors in the classroom during two-hour blocks, allowing for primarily 1:1 or 2:1 academic support. Students worked on math fact fluency, reading, sight words, and individualized ixl math skills based on diagnostic assessments. Students in grades 5-8 participated in two-hour academic blocks supported by approximately 4-5 tutors each day and demonstrated more than one year of growth in math skills during the three-week program. Rise also continued providing students with academic enrichment, mentoring, supplemental math instruction, and ongoing support as students progressed from elementary and middle school into high school and college. These programs are designed to provide hamilton students with the individualized academic support, enrichment opportunities, adult relationships, and resources needed to succeed in school and beyond.
$197,027 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $580,621.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $437k to $753k (+72%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 4% · 2023 7% · 2024 24% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $61k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED’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
RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 87% · 2023 35% — 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.
Where its funders are
85% of RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED'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 $95k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $526k 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.
Organizations like RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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 RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED: 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 RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED?
- RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $621,746 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($447,075). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $621,746 in grants to RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $447,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RISE SCHOLARS INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing