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FIRST GRADUATE

EIN 94-3381171 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$2,285,941
Expenses 2024
$2,087,056

Program services were 67.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O30
Classification
1200
Street
594 HOWARD ST STE 301

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

FIRST GRADUATE'S MISSION IS TO HELP STUDENTS BECOME THE FIRST IN THEIR FAMILIES TO GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE READY TO PURSUE A CAREER THAT IS MEANINGFUL TO THEM. WE ARE A 12-YEAR+ FREE PROGRAM-RECRUITING STUDENTS IN 6TH GRADE. OFFERINGS INCLUDE HOMEWORK AND STUDY SUPPORT, TEST PREP, SCHOOL EVALUATION, FIELD TRIPS AND SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY VISITS, SCHOLARSHIP AND INTERNSHIP ACCESS, COMMUNITY BUILDING, CAREER PRESENTATIONS FROM INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS, AND MORE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

OUR MISSION IS TO HELP STUDENTS BECOME THE FIRST IN THEIR FAMILIES TO GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE READY TO PURSUE MEANINGFUL CAREERS. FIRST GRADUATE IS A SAN FRANCISCO NONPROFIT DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING, EMPOWERING, AND ENABLING FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS TO GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE.

  • COLLEGE AND CAREER - WE ENSURE THAT STUDENTS ENROLL IN COLLEGE, COMPLETE ALL FINANCIAL FORMS, HELP THEM FIND SCHOLARSHIPS, COACH AND GUIDE THEM THROUGHOUT THEIR COLLEGE YEARS, CONNECT THEM WITH PAID INTERNSHIPS, AND GRADUATE WITHIN SIX YEARS OF ENROLLING IN COLLEGE. WE ALSO HELP THEM TRANSITION FROM COLLEGE INTO CAREERS AND THE WORKFORCE.

    Expenses $516,354 · Grants $247,371

  • HIGH SCHOOL - WE CONTINUE HELPING FIRST GENERATION STUDENTS BECOME COMPETITIVE COLLEGE CANDIDATES WITH TUTORING, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, CAREER EXPOSURE, NETWORKING, SUMMER INTERNSHIPS, APPLYING TO HIGH SCHOOL, SAT AND ACT TEST PREPARATION, COLLEGE VISITS, COLLEGE APPLICATIONS, SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION, PARENT SUPPORT DURING THE PROCESS, FINANCIAL AID APPLICATIONS, FILING FAFSA, SELECTING COLLEGE, ETC.

    Expenses $399,046 · Grants $45,021

  • MIDDLE SCHOOL - WE RECRUIT STUDENTS IN 6TH GRADE AND PROVIDE THEM WITH ACADEMIC TUTORING, CAREER EXPOSURE, AND OTHER SUPPORT NEEDED TO ENABLE THEM TO TRANSITION TO HIGH SCHOOL AND BEGIN THEIR PATH TOWARD BECOMING FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE GRADUATES.

    Expenses $388,923 · Grants $12,702

  • GENERAL PROGRAM

    Expenses $105,102 · Grants $2,716

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Terri Forman

    SECRETARY AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $164,700
    From this org
    $164,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $164,700
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $164,700
  • Gopa Dasari

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ryan Baum

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Hanish Rathod

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John A Spensieri

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rosemary Arriada Keiper

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marvell C Allen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Hamilton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan E Knowles

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tucker Serenbetz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ana Cazeneuve

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alex Lazo

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jenina S Soto

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dionne Teasley

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shelly Vernick

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,285,941
    Expenses
    $2,087,056
    Contributions
    $2,316,727
    Grants paid
    $307,810
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,910,932
    Expenses
    $2,032,987
    Contributions
    $1,915,863
    Grants paid
    $254,527
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,748,727
    Expenses
    $1,918,527
    Contributions
    $1,769,383
    Grants paid
    $156,700

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,044,310
    Expenses
    $1,640,076
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,974,240
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,827,168
    Expenses
    $1,340,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,743,010
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,626,293
    Expenses
    $1,344,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,252,664
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,476,162
    Expenses
    $1,801,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $821,373
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,939,658
    Expenses
    $2,167,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,140,926

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.