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STUDENTS FIRST FOUNDATION

EIN 81-0971185 GILBERT, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$17,206
Expenses 2024
$107,784

Program services were 90.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B12
Classification
1200
Street
1555 N FIESTA BLVD

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

AT STUDENTS FIRST FOUNDATION, IT IS OUR PURPOSE TO HELP STUDENTS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE HAVE AFFORDABLE OPPORTUNITIES TO HIGH QUALITY PRIVATE EDUCATION.

  • THE ORGANIZATION AWARDED 352 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS THAT ATTEND PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA, PURSUANT TO ARS 43-1603 AND 43-1503.THE ORGANIZATION HELPS ARIZONA FAMILIES ATTAIN AFFORDABLE PRIVATE K-12 EDUCATION THAT BEST FITS THEIR NEEDS, WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON HELPING FAMILIES WITH FINANCIAL AND MINORITY HARDSHIP.

    Expenses $98,000 · Grants $98,000

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.

  • James Lee

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeremiah Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    3
  • Brenda Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $17,206
    Expenses
    $107,784
    Contributions
    $17,206
    Grants paid
    $98,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $318,145
    Expenses
    $137,778
    Contributions
    $318,145
    Grants paid
    $137,344
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $126,630
    Expenses
    $103,758
    Contributions
    $126,630
    Grants paid
    $97,875

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $98,324
    Expenses
    $180,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,509
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $192,484
    Expenses
    $156,822
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,509
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $205,811
    Expenses
    $114,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,847
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $50,642
    Expenses
    $64,978
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,221

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
James Lee
Mailing address
1440 S CLEARVIEW AVEMESA AZ 852093380

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

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 partnerships on its 2023 return

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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 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.