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SUPPLIES FOR SUCCESS INC
NEW YORK, NY · EIN 832716158 · Form 990 · FY2024 · NTEE P99 · Human Services · Small ($100K-$1M) · suppliesforsuccess.org
revenue
$478K
expenses
$488K
net assets
$645K
employees
0
volunteers
500
program ratio
96%
mission · from form 990

SUPPLIES FOR SUCCESS, INC. WAS ORGANIZED TO ENSURE THAT UNDESERVED CHILDREN HAVE THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES ESSENTIAL SCHOOL SUPPLIES AS WELL AS OTHER EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, ART SUPPLIES AND MORE. THE ORGANIZATION DISTRIBUTES PREFILLED BACKPACKS AND CARE-PACKAGES TO OTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING HOMELESS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, CAMPS, CHURCHES, SYNAGOGUES AND SCHOOLS.

profile · synthesized from sources

Supplies for Success provides backpacks filled with school supplies to children living in poverty across the United States. The organization partners with nonprofit organizations, schools, shelters, and community groups to distribute pre-filled backpacks and care kits before the start of the school year. Its mission is to ensure disadvantaged children start school with the tools they need to succeed, reducing marginalization and boosting confidence.

named programs · 4 · from sources

What they call their work

Backpack Assembly Events
Volunteer-driven events where backpacks are filled with age-appropriate school supplies for distribution to children in need before the start of the school year.
CareKits Distribution
Distributes art-filled care kits to young learners through community partners, providing creative materials to support early childhood development.
Community Partner Distribution Network
Partners with over 100 nonprofit organizations, shelters, schools, and government agencies to distribute pre-filled backpacks directly to students they serve.
The Better Collection
Social venture selling curated women’s luxury fashion and accessories, with 100% of profits funding backpacks and operations for Supplies for Success.
activities · 4 groups

What they do

  • Volunteer Mobilization for Community Improvement 2 activities
    • Engage beneficiaries in program support activities
      Involves beneficiaries in volunteer efforts such as backpack assembly to support program delivery and foster engagement.
    • Facilitate volunteer backpack and CareKit assembly events
      Organizes and hosts volunteer events where individuals and employee groups assemble backpacks and CareKits with school and art supplies. Events have resulted in the assembly of thousands of backpacks and care kits, including partnerships with camps and corporate groups, with events requiring a minimum of 24 backpacks or 36 care kits.
  • Back-to-School Supply Distribution 1 activity
    • Distribute pre-filled backpacks and CareKits to underserved children
      Distributes new backpacks filled with age-appropriate school supplies and art activity CareKits to underserved children, primarily before the start of school and during the pandemic, through community partners. Supported distribution of more than 250,000 backpacks and nearly 50,000 CareKits to children across New York and other locations via nonprofit organizations.
  • Creative Arts Therapy Programs 1 activity
    • Operate Coloring a Better World program for mental health and empathy development
      Runs the Coloring a Better World program to combat hate, promote empathy, and support students' mental health through art-based activities.
  • Fundraising for Community and Charitable Initiatives 1 activity
    • Support educational equity through online fundraising platform
      Operates an online fundraising platform that enables individuals to create campaigns supporting educational equity for children in the United States.
financials · form 990 · fy2024
revenue
Total revenue$478K
Contributions & grants$446K93%
Program service revenue$00%
Investment income$28K6%
Other revenue$5K
expenses
Total expenses$488K
Program expenses96%
Admin / overhead3%
Fundraising1%
Salaries & benefits$0
Grants paid out$150
Largest expense lineProfessional Fees
balance sheet
Total assets$652K
Cash$155K
Investments$496K
Liabilities$6K
Net assets$645K
Liquid reserves16.0 mo
3 years on record · 2020–2024 · YoY revenue -19.5%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2024

Who runs it

board members · 3
  • JILL BODIAN — SECRETARY
  • LISA GOLDMAN — TREASURER
  • MINDY RICHTENSTEIN — PRESIDENT
relationships · 60

Who they work with

  • Bank Leumi Partner — Partnered to organize employee volunteer events that assembled 1,200 backpacks filled with school supplies.
  • Breaking Ground Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Bridgehampton Community House Partner — Hosted the 2019 backpack assembly event in the Hamptons.
  • Brooke Jackman Foundation Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Camps Partner — Distributes educational supplies through camps serving underserved children.
  • Churches Partner — Uses churches as distribution points for pre-filled backpacks and care packages.
  • Design Distributors Partner — Provided trucking and warehousing services over multiple years.
  • Feeding Westchester Partner — Collaborated with Supplies for Success to distribute CareKits to children in need.
  • Feeding Westchester Partner — Community partner organization
  • Food Bank for NYC Partner — Community partner organization
  • Free Arts NYC Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Good+ Foundation Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Government agencies Government — Partners with government agencies to distribute educational care packages to children in need.
  • Graham Windham Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Hamptons Community Outreach Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Hamptons United Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Health and human service organizations Partner — Distributes supplies through health and human service organizations serving underserved children.
  • High Water Women Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Homeless and domestic violence shelters Partner — Distributes pre-filled backpacks and care packages through homeless and domestic violence shelters.
  • Island Harvest Partner — Collaborated with Supplies for Success to distribute CareKits to children in need.
  • Island Harvest Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Island Harvest - Hauppauge Partner — Community partner organization
  • JAFCO Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • JCCA Partner — Distributed 800 backpacks assembled at Raquette Lake Camps to foster children in metro NY.
  • Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Partner — Community partner receiving shared backpacks, best practices, and wholesale resources.
  • Johns Hopkins Partner — Collaborated with Supplies for Success to distribute CareKits to children in need.
  • Lawyers for Children Partner — Distributed backpacks filled with school supplies to clients in need.
  • Long Island Cares - Suffolk County Partner — Community partner organization
  • Miss Chocolate Partner — Provided trucking and warehousing services over multiple years.
  • My Little School TriBeCa Partner — Community partner involved in backpack assembly and distribution efforts.
+ 30 more
strategies · 5

How they approach the work

Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.

  • Art-Based Programming to Promote Mental Health and Combat Hate
    methodology: art-based_mental_health_intervention
    By using art-based programming in schools, we promote empathy and mental health among students, because creative expression fosters emotional resilience and reduces prejudice through shared human experiences.
  • Creative Care Kits to Support Child Development During Crises
    methodology: creative-care_kits_for_child_development
    By providing creative learning kits during emergencies, we support cognitive and emotional development in children and reduce caregiver stress, because structured, engaging activities maintain stability and developmental continuity in unstable environments.
  • Partner-Based Distribution to Leverage Community Trust
    methodology: partner-based_distribution
    By delivering supplies through established community organizations such as schools, shelters, and faith-based institutions, we increase access to underserved children because these partners have trusted relationships and direct reach within vulnerable communities.
  • School Readiness Through Material Support
    methodology: school-readiness-through-material-support
    By providing backpacks and school supplies before the first day of school, we help disadvantaged children start on a more level playing field, increase school attendance and academic performance, and foster a sense of belonging, because material readiness reduces marginalization and reinforces education as a pathway out of poverty.
  • Youth Volunteer Engagement to Foster Charitable Values
    methodology: youth_volunteer_engagement
    By engaging youth as volunteers in service activities, we cultivate long-term charitable values and awareness of socioeconomic disparities among children, because participatory service builds empathy and civic responsibility.