Washington · Nonprofit
ACE ACADEMY
ACE ACADEMY (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $556,127 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTON ($291,326). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $556k
- Net assets
- $-141486
What Ace Academy does
Mission
ACE is built on the premise of serving men from historically under-served populations. Specifically targeting African American, African Diaspora,Latino/Hispanic, Pacific Islander, and Native American males. At ACE, young men will learn compassion and understanding, a strong educational and cultural foundation, the value of perseverance and determination, and how to use their individual talents for the greater good in their community. Young men of ACE will be able to answer the existential question of "Who Am I?" with a resounding answer of, "I AM EXELLENCE!".
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Summary of Programs: Saturday Academy - 35 students met and covered several topics including African American Art, Financial Literacy, College Readiness, Mental and Physical Health. They also went on a college tour and visited 5 state colleges and universities. FAME GAME - 75 young men participated in several workshops including Financial Literacy, Gun Violence, Entrepreneurship and Job Skills. YOMHE - 4 interns led 10 mental health presentations to 150 of their peers. SLE - 20 middle school young men participated in a 4 week summer program. The young men explored STEM, health and wellness activities, and humanities, as well as went on field trips such as the University of Washington and Blue Origin. BEI - over 50 educators attended our first Black Male Educator summit held at Seattle University. Black Male Educators were able to network with other Black Male Educators and attend several workshops focused on their needs.
$1,096,722 spent100% of program spendingFAME GAME AND IN SCHOOL PROGRAMMING- Provides purpose to young men of color with tools, resources and knowledge towards becoming viable world citizens. We cover topics that impact them and our community such as police brutality, gun violence and economic mobility. Prepares African American young men and young men of color for individual success through instruction, advising, and mentoring. The progrom focuses on supporting the whole child through physical health and well-being, youth empowerment, and skills in promoting healing.
Summer Learning Experience (SLE)- Is a 4 week summer program for middle school young men of color. The program provides hands-on academic learning opportunities in Humanities, Math, Science and Health and Wellness.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,096,722.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $177k to $18k (−90%).
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: 2020 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ACE ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $168k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ACE ACADEMY’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
ACE ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ACE ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 49% · 2022 71% · 2023 83% — 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
50% of ACE ACADEMY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 23% 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
ACE ACADEMY draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ACE ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ACE ACADEMY
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACE ACADEMY: 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 ACE ACADEMY?
- ACE ACADEMY (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $556,127 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTON ($291,326). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACE ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $556,127 in grants to ACE ACADEMY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACE ACADEMY?
- KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $291,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACE ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 13 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