California · Nonprofit
STUDENTS RUN AMERICA
STUDENTS RUN AMERICA (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,765,337 to it, the largest being LA84 FOUNDATION ($775,000). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Students Run America does
Mission
Students run la empowers middle and h.s. Students in underserved communities by challenging them to train for and complete the la marathon, encouraging goal setting, character development, and healthy living; translating a life-changing experience to lifelong success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Students run la (srla) creates a safe, supportive community at 190+ public schools, welcoming more than 3,000 students to train alongside their teachers to complete the los angeles marathon. Through this transformative experience, srla students discover their best selves, learn how to set and achieve personal and academic goals, and develop the resiliency to overcome life's obstacles. Each year, students become active ten or more hours a week; more than 95% of the students who attempt the marathon complete the 26.2-mile course; more than 95% of the seniors in srla graduate from high school; more than 90% of these graduates have plans to attend college, with more than 75% of them being among the first generation of their families to go to college.
$4,317,727 spentof which $30,500 as grants$126,012 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,317,727.
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 $1.9M (+26%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 4% · 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of STUDENTS RUN AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Gabriela Arvizu
President/CEO
Board chair
Michael Curry
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $198k → $686k.
12 of 75 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 STUDENTS RUN AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
STUDENTS RUN AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 43% · 2019 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 14% · 2023 15% — 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
56% of STUDENTS RUN AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
83% of STUDENTS RUN AMERICA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $580k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
STUDENTS RUN AMERICA's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 34 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STUDENTS RUN AMERICA
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 STUDENTS RUN AMERICA: 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 STUDENTS RUN AMERICA?
- STUDENTS RUN AMERICA (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,765,337 to it, the largest being LA84 FOUNDATION ($775,000). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STUDENTS RUN AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $4,765,337 in grants to STUDENTS RUN AMERICA, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STUDENTS RUN AMERICA?
- LA84 FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $775,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STUDENTS RUN AMERICA 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.
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 75 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