New York · Nonprofit
STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC
STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC (New York) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,246,786 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,306,046). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Studentsponsor Partners Inc does
Mission
Student/sponsor partners harnesses the power of quality education and mentorship to help low-income and academically average new york city youth escape the cycle of poverty and reach their highest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ssp opens doors of opportunity for students facing economic and educational hardship through private high school scholarships, one-to-one mentoring, and college and career programs. Since its founding, ssp has empowered thousands of young people to graduate high school and pursue bold futures. In 2024-2025, approximately 1,200 students received $5.3 million in scholarships to attend ssp's partner college-preparatory schools across new york city, guided by mentors who devoted more than 11,000 hours to their success.
$7,180,787 spentof which $5,379,892 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,180,787.
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 2018 to 2019, from $10M to $21M (+104%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
Debra A Vizzi
Executive director
Board chair
Henry Mulholland
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $944k → $4.1M.
25 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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
STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
66% 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 STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 21% · 2019 36% · 2020 20% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 14% — 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
46% of STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
55% of STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS 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 $16M that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS 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 STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC?
- STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC (New York) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,246,786 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,306,046). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $35,246,786 in grants to STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,306,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 136 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