Start School Later INC

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Our mission is to ensure schools give children of every age an opportunity to get the essential sleep they need to be healthy safe and successful. Our international coalition of over 160 volunteer-led chapters sleep and health experts educators parents students and other concerned citizens is making a real difference with groundbreaking school start time laws affecting hundreds of school districts switching to safer healthier hours.

Form 990-EZ Part III, FY2025. The organization’s own words, as filed with the IRS. Find it at the IRS (EIN 46-0922466) · Dispute this line
501(c)(3) charity; gifts are tax-deductible.
43¢ of each $1 spent went to programs.
Run by 365 volunteers.
Mission: Form 990-EZ Part III · Status: IRS Pub. 78 · Programs: Part IX · People: IRS e-file

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FY2025 · Form 990-EZIndependent: from IRS data, not the org
Download 990
IRS status
501(c)(3)
not on the IRS revocation list
Listed by the IRS and not on the revocation list.
IRS BMF · Auto-Revocation List
Tax-deductible gifts
Yes
Donations are tax-deductible
The IRS lists gifts to it as deductible.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS BMF
Latest return
FY2025
latest Form 990-EZ
The latest return is for FY2025, 1 tax year back.
IRS e-file · Filing history
Surplus or deficit
1 of 2
filings with a surplus
Average deficit $10K a year · 6% of revenue · last 2 filings
A surplus in 1 of the last 2 filings.
990-EZ Pt I · Ln 18 · 2 filings
Spent on programs
43%
of spending
43% of spending went to programs.
990-EZ Pt III · Ln 32
Pay to officers and key staff
$32K
to officers and key staff · 15% of spending
Pay to officers and key staff is 15% of spending.
990-EZ Pt IV
Named funders
3
named funders · $248K
3 funders name it on their filings.
Funders’ Sch. I, 990-PF
Liabilities
$0
0% of total assets
Liabilities are 0% of assets.
990-EZ Pt II · Ln 26
Revenue
$132K
-43% vs prior year
Spent
$215K
To programs
43%
Net assets
$204K
By yearFY2020–FY2025
Revenue
$132K
FY2025▼ -43%
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Revenue by fiscal year
FY2020$91K
FY2021$170K
FY2022$85K
FY2023$126K
FY2024$231K
FY2025$132K
Expenses
$215K
FY2025▲ +28%
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Expenses by fiscal year
FY2020Not on file
FY2021Not on file
FY2022Not on file
FY2023Not on file
FY2024$168K
FY2025$215K
Net assets
$204K
FY2025▼ -29%
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Net assets by fiscal year
FY2020$74K
FY2021$163K
FY2022$166K
FY2023$224K
FY2024$287K
FY2025$204K

From the FY2025 Form 990 · see the original

Is it real?

Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Feb 2014.

IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File

Where the money goes

43 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.

Program services 43% · $93K

Form 990-EZ Part I, lines 10–17. Every line is in By the numbers.

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Who runs it and what they're paid

11 people listed on the 990-EZ; $32K paid to officers and key staff (Part VII, Section A).

990-EZ Part IV · reportable compensation
Executive Director
$19,125990-EZ Pt IV
Operations Director
$13,108990-EZ Pt IV
Board President
$0990-EZ Pt IV
Board Member
$0990-EZ Pt IV
Board Member
$0990-EZ Pt IV
Board Member
$0990-EZ Pt IV
Board Member
$0990-EZ Pt IV
Board Member
$0990-EZ Pt IV

Terra Ziporyn Snider’s $19K as Executive Director is at the 14th percentile of top reported officer pay among 1613 $100K–1M education nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.

Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 4 named individuals · 990-EZ Part IV

NameFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020
Terra Ziporyn Snider$19,125$15,000$17,625$16,275$4,188—
Maribel Ibrahim$13,108$11,000————
Maribel Cabrera Ibrahim——$10,608$10,308$3,150$3,975
Terra Z Snider—————$6,113

Total reportable compensation (Form 990-EZ Part IV column (c) / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.

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Programs and updates

Advocates for healthier school start times to improve children's sleep, safety, and success.

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3 programs · $72K · in their own filed words · FY2024
01

National Conference

Start School Laters 2024 National Conference on Adolescent Sleep and School Start Times: Science & Implementation addressed the critical need for school districts to implement safe healthy equitable school start times for middle school and high school students supporting efforts to ensure every teenager benefits from school hours that…

Form 990-EZ Part III, lines 28–30, FY2024. The organization’s own words, as filed with the IRS. Find it at the IRS (EIN 46-0922466) · Dispute this line
$42Kprogram expense
02

Healthy Hours

Sleep-health education materials for students parents teachers health professionals and school administrators. We also provide licensed software purchases for colleges to teach their students sleep-health education.

Form 990-EZ Part III, lines 28–30, FY2024. The organization’s own words, as filed with the IRS. Find it at the IRS (EIN 46-0922466) · Dispute this line
$16Kprogram expense
03

Implementation Guidance

providing a superintendents toolkit and consulting services for school superintendents to be able to effectively manage the change to healthy and safe school start times in their districts. We also provide guidance at no cost to chapter leaders and interested stakeholders that contact us through our website.

Form 990-EZ Part III, lines 28–30, FY2024. The organization’s own words, as filed with the IRS. Find it at the IRS (EIN 46-0922466) · Dispute this line
$14Kprogram expense

Funders

Who pays for it.

From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.

Grants

Schedule I · funders on record
Grants received · FY2024
Total grants receivedfrom 3 funders$248K
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By the numbers

The FY2025 990-EZ, line by line.

1The main four
Money in
$132K
Other income$132K
Money out
$215K
Programs$93K
Owns and owes
$204K
net assets
Total assets$204K
Liabilities$0
People
11
listed
Paid2
2In more detail
Revenue in detail
Other income$132K
Total revenue$132K
Assets in detailEnd of year
Total assets$204K
Liabilities$0
Net assets$204K
Operations
Employees0
Volunteers365
Fiscal year endsDecember

Filing history

YearMoney inMoney outIn minus outNet assetsDownload
FY2025 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS May 8, 2026 $132K$215K−$83K$204K 990 PDF
FY2024Filed with the IRS Nov 1, 2025 $231K$168K$63K$287K 990 PDF
FY2023Filed with the IRS May 11, 2024 $126K$224K 990 PDF
FY2022Filed with the IRS Aug 18, 2023 $85K$166K 990 PDF
FY2021Filed with the IRS Nov 3, 2022 $170K$163K 990 PDF
FY2020Filed with the IRS Sep 24, 2021 $91K$74K 990 PDF

Schedules filed Part IV

A · Public support B · Donors O · Explanations

Form 990 e-file FY2025 from the IRS (about our sources) · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File

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