California · Nonprofit
ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA
ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,391,000 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD IMPACT FUND ($3,975,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Accelerator for America does
Mission
Accelerator for America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan do tank that delivers solutions, connections, and resources to mayors and other local leaders working to create greater economic mobility in underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Accelerator for America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan do tank that delivers solutions, connections, and resources to mayors and other local leaders working to create greater economic mobility in underserved communities. Our work is uniquely driven by our network of mayors and other leaders from the public, private, philanthropic, labor, non-profit, and academic sectors.
$1,999,764 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,999,764.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $857k to $3.6M (+324%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 25% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mary Ellen Wiederwohl
President and CEO
Board chair
Michelle De La Isla
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500k → $675k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 35% · 2019 44% · 2020 36% · 2021 71% · 2022 46% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
20% of ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 26% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $605k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Labor$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA?
- ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,391,000 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD IMPACT FUND ($3,975,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $12,391,000 in grants to ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA?
- MASTERCARD IMPACT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,975,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing