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TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC

TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($45,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$76k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$103k
Net assets
$394k
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Takeoff Institute Inc does

Mission

To equip black undergraduate students with the resources and guidance needed to launch a successful young professional career

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Summer fellowship program for black undergraduate students that provides advisors, one-on-one mentorship, and training. Our intensive 8-week summer fellowship program provides students with the opportunity to develop professional and interpersonal skills, work with leaders in their desired field, and jump-start their careers. This summer fellowship program has graduated 245 students to date.

    $28,240 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,240.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 100 ($60k)2021 Revenue 164 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($8k) Net assets 150 ($90k)2022 Revenue 216 ($130k) Expenses 304 ($25k) Net assets 356 ($214k)2023 Revenue 201 ($121k) Expenses 407 ($34k) Net assets 501 ($300k)2024 Revenue 234 ($141k) Expenses 647 ($54k) Net assets 645 ($387k)2025 Revenue 127 ($76k) Expenses 837 ($69k) Net assets 657 ($394k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (127)Expenses (837)Net assets (657)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $90k to $214k (+137%).

$60k
$90k
$214k
$300k
$388k
$403k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’20
$90k
’21
$104k
’22
$87k
’23
$87k
’24
$7k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $20k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 TAKEOFF INSTITUTE 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

TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC.

44%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 75% — 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

92% of TAKEOFF INSTITUTE 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 $8k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.

NY
SC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC?
TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($45,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $103,250 in grants to TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TAKEOFF INSTITUTE INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $45,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TAKEOFF INSTITUTE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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