Delaware · Nonprofit
TEENSHARP
TEENSHARP (Delaware) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,759,099 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($1,150,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $902k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $635k
What Teensharp does
Mission
[refer to schedule o for continuation of mission] - Teensharp is a unique learning community where black, latino, and low-income students are supported to be successful, high-achieving, and reaching potential. We do so by providing a caliber of college advising, academic instruction, leadership development, and tutoring that's typically reserved for private school settings. Our core programs (described below) are striver, g2c academy, and parent network. Combined, they span the calendar year. Since our founding in 2009, Teensharp has sent more than 400 young people to four-year colleges, including mit, cornell, yale, princeton, university of pennsylvania, macalester, northeastern, and many more. Our vision is that, one day, the diversity of those who occupy the nation's most influential leadership positions and highly-skilled jobs will reflect the nation's rich diversity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2024-2025, Teensharp continued its mission to prepare high-achieving black, latino, and low-income students for admission to top colleges and academic success. Now in its 16th year, Teensharp has served over 500 alumni and currently supports 1,500+ students and families through college readiness assessments, a bilingual parent network, parent advocacy education, and cultural enrichment like the black history challenge. Teensharp maintains a 10-year commitment to each student and their family.the striver program accepted 109 scholars from 16 states (~20% acceptance rate), with applicants now being received from over 29 states. Scholars engaged in 50+ hours of personalized advising annually, completed 5+ summer program applications and 15+ college applications each, and families participated in 30+ hours of enrichment programming.Teensharp striver college admissions outcomes include: 100% of seniors admitted to 4-year colleges. 96% attend top institutions that meet full financial need. 95% are on track to graduate in 4 years. Graduates have an average debt under $15,000 - less than half the national average for black graduates.Teensharp continues to grow its impact through the…
$640,444 spent$45,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $640,444.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $535k to $827k (+55%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 29% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% · 2024 20% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of TEENSHARP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Atnreakn Alleyne
Executive director
Board chair
James Ursomarso
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $114k → $968k.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 TEENSHARP’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
TEENSHARP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
36% 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 TEENSHARP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 68% · 2019 43% · 2020 50% · 2021 31% · 2022 21% · 2023 57% — broadly stable.
“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
39% of TEENSHARP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
71% of TEENSHARP's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $818k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
TEENSHARP's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding TEENSHARP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $453k on record.
- CENTRAL ADMIN SERVICES$221k
- FED GRANT SUB RECIPIENT$205k
- GRANTS IN AID$15k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$13k
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 TEENSHARP
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEENSHARP: 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 TEENSHARP?
- TEENSHARP (Delaware) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,759,099 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($1,150,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEENSHARP have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,759,099 in grants to TEENSHARP, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEENSHARP?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEENSHARP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 29 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