California · Nonprofit
TEENS RISE FOUNDATION
TEENS RISE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,460 to it, the largest being THE KIMMELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $550k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $584k
- Net assets
- $152k
What Teens Rise Foundation does
Mission
Teens Rise Foundation advances educational opportunity for underserved youth through two complementary channels: national distribution of academic materials and educator training, and high-touch, place-based programming in south county san diego.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
In the 2025-2026 academic year, Teens Rise Foundation provided academic enrichment and college application support materials to 9,250 students through partner schools and nonprofit organizations, and delivered professional development and instructional resources to 5,000 educators. In south county san diego, Teens Rise Foundation delivered its signature serves, scholars, y salud program to 2,894 unduplicated students across 14 title I schools in three school districts, with staff embedded on campuses before, during, and after the school day. 1,460 students engaged in regular after-school physical activity through 26 tennis programs, and 82% were retained through the full season. 1,000 students participated in college and career exploration activities, including career panels, stem job shadowing field trips, university symposiums, and college campus tours. 526 unduplicated students participated in south bay salud mindfulness programming; including 75 through weekly yoga and mindfulness classes and 480 through school-wide mindfulness assemblies, with some students participating in both. 520 families attended family engagement workshops covering fafsa completion, scholarship…
$515,197 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $515,197.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $8k to $133k (+1603%).
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: 2023 100% · 2025 1% · 2026 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of TEENS RISE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Gabriella Millan
Executive director
Board chair
Monica Esqueda
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $60k → $87k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 TEENS RISE FOUNDATION’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
TEENS RISE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 TEENS RISE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 83% · 2022 52% · 2023 58% — 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
40% of TEENS RISE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 30% 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
56% of TEENS RISE FOUNDATION'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 $254k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330k 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.
Against its field
TEENS RISE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 625 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like TEENS RISE FOUNDATION
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
97% 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 TEENS RISE FOUNDATION: 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 TEENS RISE FOUNDATION?
- TEENS RISE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,460 to it, the largest being THE KIMMELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TEENS RISE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $584,460 in grants to TEENS RISE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEENS RISE FOUNDATION?
- THE KIMMELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEENS RISE FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 10 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