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TRANSCEND INC

TRANSCEND INC (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,649,680 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($14,041,080). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$34M
Funders on record
62
Grants received
$87M
Net assets
$49M
38/62 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

What Transcend Inc does

Mission

Transcend supports communities to create and spread extraordinary learning for all.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Transcend is a national nonprofit that helps communities reimagine and redesign schools so every young person can thrive in a rapidly changing world. Across the country, communities are recognizing that classrooms built for the industrial age aren't preparing learners for what's next. Schools must be designed for continuous evolution. We've partnered with hundreds of schools and districts to build capacity for bold, lasting change. From this work, we develop and share tools, research, and models that help schools everywhere make the leap to extraordinary learning.

    $26,576,824 spentof which $185,500 as grants$4,902,053 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,576,824.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2018 Revenue 140 ($9.6M) Expenses 147 ($4.8M) Net assets 191 ($10M)2019 Revenue 141 ($9.6M) Expenses 182 ($5.9M) Net assets 260 ($14M)2020 Revenue 142 ($9.7M) Expenses 226 ($7.4M) Net assets 304 ($16M)2021 Revenue 243 ($17M) Expenses 322 ($10M) Net assets 419 ($22M)2022 Revenue 534 ($36M) Expenses 593 ($19M) Net assets 743 ($39M)2023 Revenue 456 ($31M) Expenses 899 ($29M) Net assets 781 ($41M)2024 Revenue 477 ($33M) Expenses 933 ($30M) Net assets 846 ($45M)2025 Revenue 498 ($34M) Expenses 927 ($30M) Net assets 932 ($49M)
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Revenue (498)Expenses (927)Net assets (932)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 $23M to $40M (+78%).

$5.9M
$10M
$14M
$17M
$23M
$40M
$42M
$46M
$50M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of TRANSCEND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.6M
’17
$4.8M
’18
$3.6M
’19
$2.3M
’20
$6.0M
’21
$17M
’22
$1.8M
’23
$2.1M
’24
$3.7M
’25
13
months of
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

Aylon Samouha

CEO

Board chair

Vanessa Rodriguez

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111615151616152022
Joined·+6+1+6+3+2+1+8+4
No longer listed·12622232
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $20M.

16 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 TRANSCEND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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

TRANSCEND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

49% 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 TRANSCEND INC.

16%
largest funder
35%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 53% · 2019 44% · 2020 19% · 2021 18% · 2022 54% · 2023 24% — 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

43% of TRANSCEND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

TRANSCEND INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 19 states in all.

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

TRANSCEND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve12.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding TRANSCEND INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $422k on record.

Federal$422k
grants $300kcontracts $123k
23
25
Top agencies
  • National Science Foundation$300k
  • Department of Justice$123k

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 TRANSCEND INC

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In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

73%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRANSCEND 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 TRANSCEND INC?
TRANSCEND INC (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,649,680 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($14,041,080). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRANSCEND INC have?
IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $86,649,680 in grants to TRANSCEND INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRANSCEND INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $14,041,080 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRANSCEND 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.

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 62 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