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UPAYA SOCIAL VENTURES

EIN 80-0713334 SEATTLE, WA

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Revenue 2024
$3,266,053
Expenses 2024
$1,147,580

Program services were 76.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q32
Classification
2100
Street
508 YALE AVE N SUITE 214

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

Upaya Social Ventures' mission is to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Upaya Social Ventures fights extreme poverty through dignified jobs. Founded in 2011, Upaya provides investment and consulting support to early-stage businesses aimed at creating jobs for people living in extreme poverty.

  • Upaya creates dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support. Since 2011, Upaya has supported 42 small and growing businesses in India with investments and expertise. As of December 2024, Upaya partners had created 46,186 lasting and dignified jobs. In 2024, Upaya accelerated the growth of seven additional companies and selected four new partners for our investment portfolio.

    Expenses $876,497 · Revenue $60,025

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.

  • Kate Cochran

    CEO until July 2024, Board Member

    Total calculated
    $134,375
    From this org
    $134,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 0.5 related
  • Arumugasamy Balachandran Chakravart

    Co-CEO

    Total calculated
    $85,000
    From this org
    $85,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 0.5 related
  • Shruti Goel

    Co-CEO

    Total calculated
    $80,000
    From this org
    $80,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 0.5 related
  • Sachita Shenoy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Richard Wardell

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Parvathy Ramanathan

    Vice Chair/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Nainesh Shah

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Caroline Bressan

    Board Member until June 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kumar Ganapathy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mukund Ghangurde

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bill Harrington

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Manoj Jain

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Yashodhra Painumkal

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kim Rachmeler

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Caroline Norton Vance

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,266,053
    Expenses
    $1,147,580
    Contributions
    $3,215,890
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,187,579
    Expenses
    $1,220,091
    Contributions
    $1,130,651
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,286,104
    Expenses
    $1,075,248
    Contributions
    $1,205,213
    Grants paid
    $42,646

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $857,739
    Expenses
    $864,880
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,421,996
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,407,139
    Expenses
    $831,910
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,341,894
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $947,648
    Expenses
    $642,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,700,916
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $628,023
    Expenses
    $605,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $394,500
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,428,023
    Expenses
    $677,789
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,016,328
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $507,855
    Expenses
    $511,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,870
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $370,457
    Expenses
    $560,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $207,795
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $564,287
    Expenses
    $378,532
    Assets (EOY)
    $366,856

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • UPAYA SOCIAL VENTURES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

    C · Economic development · IN · 99.99% owned · share of income $445,825 · share of assets $326,464 · controlled entity

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.