New York · Nonprofit
YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC
YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,866,600 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($935,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Yonkers Partners in Education Inc does
Mission
Yonkers partners in education (ypie) partners with students to ensure they are ready for, enroll in, and complete college. We confront the challenges of low-income urban school districts by providing families with equitable access to the critical tools and services necessary for college success. Ypie has put a college degree and careers within reach for thousands of underrepresented, first-generation students. Ypie provides its proven model to high school and college students from yonkers, ny, jersey city, nj, and nashville, tn.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ypie scholars and college zone the ypie scholars program prepares students for success in college and in future careers. Beginning in ninth grade, students meet with ypie staff and volunteers who provide mentoring and academic coaching.at the ypie college zone, students receive intensive tutoring in core subject areas, including math and science. They also choose a career-focused area, called a ypie major, that they pursue throughout high school. Students work with professionals in the field to complete a project and/or earn college credit, and participate in competitions to demonstrate their learning.
$1,574,488 spent50% of program spendingYpie access (fellows) ypie staff and volunteers support students with the college application process and transition to college, including preparing a strong college essay, visiting college campuses, selecting a best-fit college, and assisting with financial aid and scholarship applications.
$909,946 spent29% of program spendingYpie college success program following high school graduation, ypie students receive guidance and support from ypie's college success team through all four years of college. Our college success advisors meet with students as needed (in person and remotely) and contact them at key touchpoints, including fafsa renewal periods, to ensure they complete all renewal documents.ypie college students are matched with a volunteer career or graduate school coach to help them prepare for life after college. Coaches provide personalized career guidance, skill-building opportunities, and application support for internships, full-time jobs, and graduate school.
$315,954 spentof which $2,165 as grants10% of program spendingOther program services.ypie for allypie provides resources and events for students across the school districts we serve, including those not enrolled in ypie programs.ypie for all events include: college essay workshops, application completion workshops, common application completion workshops, fafsa/financial aid form completion workshops, and family meetings.wrap around servicesmental health: ypie partners with westchester jewish community services (wjcs) and rwjbarnabas, established community therapy providers, to provide students and their families with therapy sessions at no cost. These therapy sessions take each young person's cultural identity, language preferences, and family dynamics into consideration to ensure each young person is validated and receives the care that they need.emergency fund: the ypie college success emergency fund ensures that students in the ypie college success program have the means to respond to emergency situations that may arise during their time in college without compromising their academic progress.food: ypie provides healthy snack options to our students after school at the ypie college zone at each site.
$336,522 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,136,910.
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.
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 $3.2M to $4.4M (+37%).
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: 2020 16% · 2022 36% · 2023 17% · 2024 16% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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
Sam Wallis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $168k → $1.2M.
15 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
57% 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 YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 22% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 17% · 2022 18% · 2023 14% — 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
50% of YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
69% of YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M 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.
Against its field
YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record — $969k federal, $281k state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$969k
- FEDERAL$281k
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 YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC?
- YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,866,600 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($935,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $6,866,600 in grants to YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $935,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 87 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing