Elevate Tutoring

Name

Elevate Tutoring

Legal name

Elevate Tutoring

Website

https://elevatetutoring.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Nonprofits / Tutoring Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Academic Tutoring Services (Subject-Specific & General) (EDAJALAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Virtual Test Prep & Online Supplemental Instruction (K–12) (EDAJADAI), Study Habits & Homework Systems Workshops (EDAMAIAL)

Keywords

• Nonprofit tutoring
• STEM tutoring
• K-12 education
• Fellowship program
• Near-peer tutoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Mountain View

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: Elevate Tutoring operates as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation that generates revenue through donations from individuals, sponsors, and supporters. The organization accepts donations through its website using Donorbox and PayPal payment processors.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Elevate Tutoring operates an 18-month Fellowship Program that recruits low-income and first-generation undergraduate students to serve as near-peer tutors for underserved K-12 students. Fellows receive training, work experience, professional development, and an $8,000 college scholarship, and in return deliver free STEM tutoring (4,000+ hours per year) to underserved K-12 schools. Program delivery uses Google Classrooms (Portals) and a Fellow Portal, while donations are processed via Donorbox and PayPal.

Product overview

Elevate Tutoring operates as a single, unified program offering — the Fellowship Program — which is a part-time, 18-month fellowship that combines college student support with K-12 STEM tutoring services. The organization does not offer a platform-plus-modules architecture; instead, its core offering is the 18-month fellowship that provides scholarship funds, professional development, and near-peer tutoring to underserved K-12 students. The Fellowship Program serves as both the primary product and the delivery mechanism for Elevate's mission of accelerating social mobility for low-income and first-generation college students.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fellowship Program An 18-month part-time fellowship program for low-income and first-generation undergraduate students that provides training, work experience, professional development, a $8,000 college scholarship, and volunteer tutoring opportunities as near-peer tutors and role models for K-12 students.
• STEM Tutoring for K-12 Students Free STEM tutoring services delivered to underserved K-12 schools by Tutor Fellows, providing more than 4,000 hours per year of instruction to help close the achievement gap.

Quantifiable outcome

• 350+ tutor fellows supported since 2011
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Year Up: Nonprofit providing training, mentorship, and stipends/scholarships to low-income young adults to support career launch. Comparable in combining financial support, training, and 'pay-it-forward' community-service elements with a low-income first-generation student beneficiary base.
• Citizen Schools: Nonprofit providing extended learning time, mentoring, and academic enrichment to underserved middle school students through volunteer professionals. Comparable as a nonprofit delivering free academic support to underserved K-12 students via a structured volunteer fellowship-like model.
• iMentor: Nonprofit pairing underserved high school students with college-educated mentors to support college persistence and success. Comparable in pairing near-peer role models with underserved students to close educational and college-access gaps.
• Tutor.com (part of The Princeton Review): Online on-demand tutoring platform serving K-12 and college students. Comparable product category (academic tutoring) and beneficiary overlap (K-12 students), though delivered as a paid commercial service rather than a free volunteer-based nonprofit program.
• CollegeSpring: Nonprofit providing SAT/test prep and college access programming for low-income and first-generation high school students. Closely aligned with Elevate's focus on first-generation, low-income students and educational equity.
• Reading Partners: Nonprofit organization mobilizing community volunteers to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring to underserved K-12 students. Directly comparable in operating model (volunteer near-peer tutors serving underfunded schools) and beneficiary focus (educational equity for underserved K-12 students).
• 826 National: National nonprofit network providing free tutoring, writing support, and educational services to underserved K-12 students through volunteer-driven programs. Closely comparable mission and beneficiary segment to Elevate Tutoring's K-12 STEM tutoring arm.

Emerging players

• BUILD: Nonprofit using entrepreneurship education to support college and career success for low-income and first-generation high school students. Comparable beneficiary segment (first-generation, low-income students pursuing higher education) and mission overlap with Elevate's college-success focus.

Broad incumbents

• Varsity Tutors: Large commercial tutoring platform serving K-12 and college students across subjects including STEM. Comparable in product (K-12 STEM tutoring) but operates as a for-profit paid service with a national footprint, contrasting with Elevate's nonprofit free-tutoring model.
• Khan Academy: Large-scale nonprofit providing free K-12 STEM educational content, practice, and tutoring. Highly comparable mission (free STEM learning access for underserved students) and overlap with Elevate's STEM tutoring offering, though delivered as content + AI tools rather than live near-peer tutors.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ElevateTutoring
• Facebookfacebook.com/elevatetutoring
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/elevate-tutoring
• Instagraminstagram.com/elevatetutoring

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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