Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ACCESS INC
ACCESS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,850,186 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Access Inc does
Mission
Access youth's mission is to empower vulnerable youth with the tools they need to stay in school, graduate on time and avoid the justice system, through mediation and restorative justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Truancy prevention: ayi's truancy prevention program, initiated in 2013 in partnership with dc public schools (dcps), increases in-seat student attendance rates, reduces truancy and enhances student engagement and performance. Ayi's program managers work full-time in its partner schools with students at risk of truancy, to help them identify their barriers to attendance and develop a plan for improvement. Once enrolled in the program, students receive ongoing support from ayi's full-time, on-site program managers who implement a four-pronged program model: relationship-building, opportunities & incentives, planning & goal setting, and accountability. The program generates measurable improvements in chronic absenteeism, in-seat attendance, and promotion to the next grade level.
$1,034,705 spent$304,000 earned by the program61% of program spendingSuspension prevention (restorative justice): access youth's restorative justice in schools program, initiated in 2012, in partnership with dc public schools (dcps), provides mediation and restorative interventions as alternatives to suspension for students struggling with interpersonal conflict and other behavioral concerns. Ayi's program managers work full-time in its partner schools to conduct mediation sessions with students, identify their concerns, and develop a plan to move forward constructively. Students receive support from ayi's full-time, on-site program managers who implement its four-pronged program model. The program prevents unnecessary suspensions, generates improved pro-social behavior, and enables students to stay engaged in school.
$583,032 spent34% of program spendingOther program services: access youth offers additional services and programs as a complement to its core programming (all other program services). This includes our roadmap life skills programming, which delivers weekly sessions focused on building emotional intelligence and key skills students need to succeed in school and beyond. In addition, m.a.d.e. (my attitude determines everything) is ayi's highly lauded program for young female students struggling with behavior issues. M.a.d.e. Consists of weekly sessions for students focused on building a sense of sisterhood, through a trauma-informed lens, that empowers them to become leaders in their school and community. Hundreds of the students in ayi's truancy prevention and restorative justice in schools programs participate in these services each year.
$78,776 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,696,513.
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 2023 to 2024, from $641k to $2.6M (+300%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 33% · 2019 58% · 2020 51% · 2021 64% · 2022 57% · 2023 63% · 2024 34% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of ACCESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Jodi Ovca
Executive director
Board chair
Jennifer Rackow
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $496k → $453k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 ACCESS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 24 funders by total. 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
ACCESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACCESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 64% · 2019 58% · 2020 68% · 2021 55% · 2022 54% · 2023 63% — 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
46% of ACCESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
ACCESS INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ACCESS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACCESS INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCESS INC?
- ACCESS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,850,186 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $4,850,186 in grants to ACCESS INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCESS INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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