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COLLEGE IS REAL INC

EIN 20-8651702 DANVILLE, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,499,907
Expenses 2024
$1,378,772

Program services were 85.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B80
Classification
2000
Street
390 RAILROAD AVE STE 200

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

Our mission is to change the college-going culture in Richmonds high schools in order to uplift the community by having more of its students, who are mostly low-income people of color, attend and be the first in their families to graduate from college.

Activities or mission (Part I)

College Is Real's mission is to change the college-going culture in Richmonds high schools in order to uplift the community by having more of its students, who are mostly low-income people of color, attend and be the first in their families to graduate from college.

  • In 2024-2025, College Is Real, Inc. (CIR) served over 450 high school students at Richmond's three public high schools (Richmond, De Anza and Kennedy) in Richmond, CA. Students are admitted to the CIR program after submitting an application, having an interview with the program director and meeting certain academic criteria. CIR's objective is to have a 100% high school graduation rate and 90-100% of its members accepted to four-year colleges. CIR provides academic counseling, after-school tutoring and study hall throughout the school year. CIR pays for SAT and ACT testing registration and college applications for those students who don't otherwise have sufficient personal or government funding. CIR provides college tours for its students as well as site visits to local companies. CIR also organizes and sponsors various community service activities for its members in order to give them the opportunity to "Give Back" to the community while helping strengthen their college applications. CIR awards scholarships to its graduating seniors depending upon which university or college they are attending. The scholarships typically average $2,000 per student and are awarded at the annual awards night. CIR also provides merit scholarships to its alumni attending college. There is also a College Success Program that helps ensure an effective transition for the students into freshman year and to persevere through to college graduation.

    Expenses $1,180,371 · Grants $624,898

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.

  • Angelica Arriaga

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $132,750
    From this org
    $132,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • David Millstein

    COO

    Total calculated
    $80,000
    From this org
    $80,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Bradley Blake

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Book

    Secy, Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Lopera Overton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Destiney Norsouvanh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tank Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samantha Suriano

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Omar Butler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rodrigo Corona Flores

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Waldron

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Tuckness

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Telles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Song Wendel

    Director

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,499,907
    Expenses
    $1,378,772
    Contributions
    $1,526,700
    Grants paid
    $624,898
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $914,942
    Expenses
    $858,858
    Contributions
    $912,596
    Grants paid
    $242,440
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,063,974
    Expenses
    $652,204
    Contributions
    $829,976
    Grants paid
    $180,727

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
    $775,622
    Expenses
    $540,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $687,167

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $528,945
    Expenses
    $496,751
    Assets (EOY)
    $330,379

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,846
    Expenses
    $339,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $348,002

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $412,990
    Expenses
    $539,850
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,592

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $486,583
    Expenses
    $505,369
    Assets (EOY)
    $327,567

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $360,809
    Expenses
    $451,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $363,942

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $387,390
    Expenses
    $352,900
    Assets (EOY)
    $455,019

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $250,350
    Expenses
    $175,182
    Assets (EOY)
    $420,529

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $252,848
    Expenses
    $161,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $345,361

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $130,835
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,040

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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