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SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION SAYA INC

EIN 13-3943630 ELMHURST, NY

Revenue 2024
$6,471,521
Expenses 2024
$6,921,806

Program services were 85.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
2000
Street
5405 SEABURY ST

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

SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION (SAYA) IS A 501(C)3 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION PROVIDING VALUABLE LIFE SKILLS AND HOLISTIC, IMPACTFUL, FREE PROGRAMMING TO UNDERSERVED NEW YORK CITY YOUTH. AS ONE OF THE FIRST SOUTH ASIAN ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, WE PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE POSITIVE AND HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES. OUR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PROGRAMMING - CENTERED ON THE PILLARS OF LEADERSHIP, ACADEMIC SUPPORT, AND ENRICHMENT - PROPELS THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL GROWTH OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, AND DRIVES EDUCATION EQUITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

A YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION PROVIDING VALUABLE LIFE SKILLS AND HOLISTIC, IMPACTFUL PROGRAMMING TO UNDERSERVED NYC YOUTH.

  • SAYA REMAINS STEADFAST IN SUPPORTING UNDER-RESOURCED YOUTH ACROSS ALL PROGRAM SITES. THROUGH CULTURALLY-AFFIRMING RESOURCES, MENTORSHIP, AND ACADEMIC SUPPORT, WE FOSTER RESILIENCE, ENHANCE ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITIES, AND PRIORITIZE NURTURING A SENSE OF BELONGING. THE SUCCESS OF THIS YEAR UNDERSCORES THE PROFOUND IMPACT OF SAYA'S MULTIFACETED PROGRAMS, REINFORCING OUR COMMITMENT TO EMPOWER AND INSPIRE YOUNG PEOPLE TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. BETWEEN JULY 2024 AND JUNE 2025, MORE THAN 4,000 YOUTH IN ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, HIGH SCHOOL, AND COLLEGE PARTICIPATED IN SAYA PROGRAMMING ACROSS 12 SITES. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)1. ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAMMING:THIS YEAR, OUR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAMS COMBINED ACADEMIC SUPPORT, ENRICHMENT, AND TEAM-BASED ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE LEARNING AND BELONGING. EIGHTY PERCENT OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS ARE HIGHLY ENGAGED IN SAYA'S AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMMING, AND FOUR OUT OF FIVE STUDENTS AT OUR LARGEST ELEMENTARY SITE SAID SAYA GIVES THEM OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPLORE NEW SUBJECTS AND IDEAS. ADDITIONALLY, WE INCREASED OUR PARENT AND GUARDIAN ENGAGEMENT THROUGH REGULAR FAMILY-FOCUSED EVENTS. 2. HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMMING:SAYA DEEPENED OUR PRESENCE ACROSS ALL HIGH SCHOOL SITES, STRENGTHENING OUR CONNECTIONS WITH STUDENTS AND THE SCHOOL COMMUNITIES - PROVIDING TAILORED SUPPORT TO MEET THEIR EVOLVING NEEDS. DURING THE 2024-25 SCHOOL YEAR, WE SURVEYED OUR COMMUNITY CENTER PARTICIPANTS, WITH THOSE YOUTH WHO RESPONDED INDICATING SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH: 83% REPORTED IMPROVED COMMUNICATION, AND 68% SHOWED ENHANCED PUBLIC SPEAKING ABILITIES. IN ADDITION, OUR IMPACT ON COLLEGE READINESS WAS SIGNIFICANT, WITH 91% OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ON TRACK TO GRADUATE WITHIN FIVE YEARS AND 100% OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ATTENDING OUR CENTER PROGRAM ACCEPTED INTO COLLEGE OR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL.3. COLLEGE SUCCESS AND CAREER READINESS PROGRAMMING:OUR 2024 COLLEGE SUCCESS COHORT CURRENTLY HAS A 97% PERSISTENCE RATE, HAVING STAYED IN SCHOOL THROUGH THEIR SECOND YEAR OF COLLEGE, WHICH IS 20% HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF 77% (PER THE NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE RESEARCH CENTER)

    Expenses $5,906,546 · Grants $196,500 · Revenue $1,271,971

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Sonia B Sisodia

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $216,513
    From this org
    $177,738
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,775
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,738
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,866
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,909
    Filer's total
    $216,513
  • Saphia Najafee

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $184,562
    From this org
    $172,872
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,690
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $172,872
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,690
    Filer's total
    $184,562
  • Suhail Ahmed

    CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $145,531
    From this org
    $141,485
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,046
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jasmine Blaney

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $158,481
    From this org
    $132,519
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,962
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $132,519
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,962
    Filer's total
    $158,481
  • Griselda Estevez

    SR. DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $140,148
    From this org
    $113,418
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,730
    Hours/week
    40
  • Georgia Schoonmaker

    ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

    Total calculated
    $123,393
    From this org
    $108,860
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,533
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dedunu Suraweera

    COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $117,712
    From this org
    $103,761
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,951
    Hours/week
    40
  • Samidh Guha

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sunita Desai

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sonia Deb

    SECRETARY (THROUGH 1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rippi Gill Rangwala

    SECRETARY (STARTED 4/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sasank Chary

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Bharat Das

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sucharita Dasa

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Shalini Mahajan

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Arjun Menon

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Faraz Munaim

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sri Murthy

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Thara Natalie Prashad

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Bharat Sawhney

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Radhika Seghal

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Zarme Shahnawaz

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sheetal Sheth

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Arun Subramanian

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $6,471,521
    Expenses
    $6,921,806
    Contributions
    $5,124,022
    Grants paid
    $196,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,129,065
    Expenses
    $5,833,735
    Contributions
    $6,472,728
    Grants paid
    $193,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,475,303
    Expenses
    $4,481,134
    Contributions
    $5,061,359
    Grants paid
    $183,000

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
    $5,006,918
    Expenses
    $4,278,514
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,303,661
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,813,066
    Expenses
    $3,755,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,046,686
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,161,036
    Expenses
    $4,201,777
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,068,686
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,943,053
    Expenses
    $4,016,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,460,094
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,012,400
    Expenses
    $3,882,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,449,325
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,738,154
    Expenses
    $3,370,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,402,599
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,693,480
    Expenses
    $3,234,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,093,262
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,517,889
    Expenses
    $2,421,452
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,444,985
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,300,913
    Expenses
    $2,129,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,284,082

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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.