Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,662,193
- Total expenses
- $2,114,758
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,662,193
- Grants paid
- $150,895
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $839,508
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $66,105
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $773,403
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,993,735
- Management and general expenses
- $121,023
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,993,735
Program services were 94.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,662,193
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $36,817 · program services $36,817
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $114,078 · program services $114,078
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $250,748 · program services $239,048 · management and general $11,700
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,052,817 · program services $1,003,693 · management and general $49,124
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $90,924 · program services $90,924
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $73,952 · program services $66,259 · management and general $7,693
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11b · Fees: legal
total $4,848 · management and general $4,848
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $18,925 · management and general $18,925
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11g · Fees: other
total $12,693 · management and general $12,693
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $60,256 · program services $60,256
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13 · Office expenses
total $25,083 · program services $23,135 · management and general $1,948
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14 · Information technology
total $214,208 · program services $214,208
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16 · Occupancy
total $78,698 · program services $70,853 · management and general $7,845
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17 · Travel
total $29,558 · program services $29,558
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23 · Insurance
total $5,575 · management and general $5,575
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24a · Other expenses: Pledge Writedown
total $25,000 · program services $25,000
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24b · Other expenses: Staff Events
total $14,341 · program services $14,341
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24c · Other expenses: Miscellaneous Expense
total $6,237 · program services $5,565 · management and general $672
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $346,605 · end of year $401,348
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $893,265 · end of year $434,000
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $46,216 · end of year $4,160
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $83,853 · end of year $66,105
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $308,968 · end of year $339,414
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $893,265 · end of year $433,989
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
Aspire's mission is to empower low-income and first-generation college students and recent graduates to act independently, make informed choices, and affect meaningful change. Through the tuition-free, online Aspire Leaders Program, participants develop resilience, cultural awareness, and leadership skills to help them navigate challenges and embrace opportunities in education, careers, and life. By fostering confidence, self-efficacy, and collaboration, Aspire equips future leaders to create lasting impacts in their communities and beyond.
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $1,993,735 · Grants $150,895
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
Listed in Part VII
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Meena Sonea Hewett
CEO
- Total calculated
- $191,375
- From this org
- $173,719
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $17,656
- Hours/week
- 50
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $173,719
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $17,656
- Filer's total
- $191,375
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Tarun Khanna
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Karim Lakhani
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Arthur Hunt
Finance Officer
- Total calculated
- $59,373
- From this org
- $59,373
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Dimitri Antoniou
Chief of Staff
- Total calculated
- $110,354
- From this org
- $100,106
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,248
- Hours/week
- 40
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 11 May 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202611339349302566
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