Students Matter

Analysis

Students Matter is a registered charity in United States, based in Menlo Park, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Students Matter reported income of $492k and spending of $775k, spending 158% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $269k to $492k (+83%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Students Matter sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hunt of a Lifetime Foundation Inc ($491k), Jaws Youth Fund ($492k) and American Association for Justice Robert L Habush Endowment ($491k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. It paid $107k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $31k against liabilities of $49k, net assets of -$18k.