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UPSOLVE INC

UPSOLVE INC (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,380,012 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.1M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
$3.4M
19/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 99%
01What it does

What Upsolve Inc does

Mission

Upsolve's mission is to educate, empower, and serve underprivileged, distressed, and vulnerable populations throughout the united states by helping them access their civil rights and liberties secured by law.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Legal related and education services upsolve provides free financial and legal education, free online community, access to free evaluations, and free technology tools to underprivileged, distressed, and low-income individuals. In 2024, almost two and a half million people visited upsolve's website to consume its free education and over 2,700 people filed using upsolve's bankruptcy technology tools. In 2024, upsolve members confirmed relieving over $134 million in debt by filing bankruptcy forms they generated with our tools.upsolve also promotes equal rights under the law through public education, advocacy, and community-based partnerships.

    $1,333,656 spent$327,460 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,333,656.

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 ($174k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($95k)2018 Revenue 259 ($451k) Expenses 286 ($228k) Net assets 336 ($318k)2019 Revenue 1199 ($2.1M) Expenses 1115 ($888k) Net assets 1676 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 895 ($1.6M) Expenses 1528 ($1.2M) Net assets 2038 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 2097 ($3.7M) Expenses 2276 ($1.8M) Net assets 3984 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 1351 ($2.4M) Expenses 2604 ($2.1M) Net assets 4279 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 668 ($1.2M) Expenses 2423 ($1.9M) Net assets 3469 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 1204 ($2.1M) Expenses 2481 ($2.0M) Net assets 3598 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (1204)Expenses (2481)Net assets (3598)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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $3.9M (+89%).

$162k
$355k
$1.6M
$2.0M
$3.9M
$4.1M
$3.3M
$4.4M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of UPSOLVE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$95k
’17
$223k
’18
$1.2M
’19
$342k
’20
$1.8M
’21
$279k
’22
−$766k
’23
$122k
’24
17
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

Jonathan Petts

CEO

Board chair

Rohan Pavuluri

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed455681014
Joined·+1+0+3+5+5+4
No longer listed·002330
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $281k → $986k.

12 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 UPSOLVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

UPSOLVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

54% 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 UPSOLVE INC.

19%
largest funder
44%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 34% · 2019 22% · 2020 27% · 2021 28% · 2022 29% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of UPSOLVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

UPSOLVE INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
CA
CO
MD
DE
KS

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

UPSOLVE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve16.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)43% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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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

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 17%Fundraising 15%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds UPSOLVE INC?
UPSOLVE INC (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,380,012 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UPSOLVE INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $10,380,012 in grants to UPSOLVE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UPSOLVE INC?
GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UPSOLVE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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