New York · Nonprofit
STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC
STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,147,917 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($5,278,808). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Staying Alive Foundation Inc does
Mission
To encourage, energize, and empower young people who are involved in hiv/aids awareness, education and prevention campaigns.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foundation provides mass media campaigns to assist young people make positive decisions about their health with a focus on content creation and peer education.content creationthrough the creation of relatable storylines that transforms messaging into engaging content for young people, primarily in sub-saharan africa and india, the foundation was able to create "edutainment" campaigns such as mtv shuga down south, mtv shuga naija, mtv shuga babi, and mtv nishedhpeer educationin conjunction with the campaign content, the foundation has peer educators that help create safe spaces for young people to engage in meaningful discussions, share their stories, and provide overall support within the community
$3,259,871 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,259,871.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.1M to $2.3M (−56%).
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.
99% of STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Wame Jallow
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $274k → $874k.
12 of 24 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 STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION 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
STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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 80% · 2018 76% · 2019 83% · 2020 68% · 2021 86% · 2022 81% · 2023 94% — 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
22% of STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $93k on record.
- Department of State$93k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION 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.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION 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 STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC?
- STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,147,917 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($5,278,808). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $11,147,917 in grants to STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,278,808 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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