New York · Nonprofit
SPIRIT NYS INC
SPIRIT NYS INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,645 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($88,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $144k
- Net assets
- $0
What Spirit Nys Inc does
Mission
By providing an opportunity to earn financial support, and providing mentoring, advocacy and supplies, Spirit NYS enables high school students, in dire circumstances through fault of their own, to graduate high school, while simultaneously enabling development of "soft skills" such as personal money management, consistent study habits and effective communication traits. This enhances their ability to achieve economic success and reach their personal goals. Spirit NYS students are forced to face extraordinary challenges due to circumstances not of their making, and they are admirable in their determination to continue towards graduation despite those challenges.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Spirit NYS's support enables students to continue in school rather than drop out; in Rochester NY, our initial focus, the dropout rate, without intervention, is 60% for students matching our criteria. To date, 217 students have been supported, with a retention rate of 93%.( 15 students have dropped out;) GPAs on average doubled in the first year and increased by 15% more in the second year, and by 20% in the third year; 4 students who were failing are now A students; 2 students expected to drop out returned to school; all are passing courses needed to graduate. Several have won prestigious awards, such as Susan B Anthony or NYS Attorney Generals triple C awards, along with multiple scholarships .
$43,060 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,060.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $494k 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. 0 of the last 5 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
John Thompson
Chair, CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $76k → $22k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 SPIRIT NYS 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
SPIRIT NYS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 SPIRIT NYS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 54% — 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
68% of SPIRIT NYS 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 $46k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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 SPIRIT NYS 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.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPIRIT NYS INC: 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 SPIRIT NYS INC?
- SPIRIT NYS INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,645 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($88,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPIRIT NYS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $143,645 in grants to SPIRIT NYS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPIRIT NYS INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $88,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPIRIT NYS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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