New York · Nonprofit
SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR
SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $821,968 to it, the largest being COULL FOUNDATION ($300,350). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $822k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Saratoga Sponsor-A-Scholar does
Mission
Our mission is "...to assist economically disadvantaged young men and women to complete high school and graduate from college."
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
ScholarsSaratoga Sponsor-A-Scholar selects students motivated to achieve academically who could use additional support and direction to meet their goals. Eligible students must have a b/c average, demonstrate a commitment to their education and be economically disadvantaged. Students are nominated by guidance counselors and teachers in the ninth grade and selected by a rigorous process that includes an application, recommendations and an interview with students and families. Many students are the first in their family to attend college. Students participate in the program from sophomore year through college graduation.academic supportstudents enrolled in Saratoga Sponsor-A-Scholar attend saratoga springs high school. Two academic coordinators from the high school guidance department oversee the enrollment and application process. Tutors at homework sessions are classroom teachers from each major subject area or members of the community who are experts in their field. Sponsor-a-scholar also encourages and provides funding for advanced placement (ap) courses and psat/sat training. Sponsors and donorsto pay for the participation of the students in our program, ssas enlists a…
$230,952 spentof which $109,965 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $230,952.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $1.8M (+15%).
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.
77% of SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Hollowood Cindy
Executive director
Board chair
Carminucci James
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $42k → $133k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR’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
SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 52% · 2019 47% · 2020 45% · 2021 34% · 2022 34% · 2023 38% — 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
45% of SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR?
- SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $821,968 to it, the largest being COULL FOUNDATION ($300,350). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $821,968 in grants to SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR?
- COULL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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