California · Nonprofit
ACHIEVEKIDS
ACHIEVEKIDS (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,714 to it, the largest being THE GUZIK FOUNDATION ($140,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $844k
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Achievekids does
Mission
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and behavioral challenges. The primary mission of Achievekids is to create a greater opportunity in the lives of students in special education through exceptional schools and collaborative educational services that enable students with special needs to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Special education: Achievekids operates two non-public schools located in palo alto and east san jose. We serve over 100 elementary and secondary education students from four bay area counties. Achievekids provides dynamic and innovative education services for students in special education. Through a community of acceptance and respect, Achievekids specializes in creating learning for students with severe emotional, learning, and/or developmental disabilities. Our dedicated teachers, paraprofessionals, behavioral health team, and speech therapists work collaboratively to create opportunity and independence in the lives of our students. This interdisciplinary team becomes a skillful problem solving group that instructs and guides students toward greater independence and self-reliance, enabling a path to a brighter future. Wasc accredited, Achievekids is a learning organization, where all of our community learns and grows. Achievekids is a member of california association of private special education schools. For more information go to www.capses.com, or visit our website, www.Achievekids.org.highly individualized and specialized programs: we use a multi-disciplinary collaborative…
$9,274,119 spent$9,599,573 earned by the program93% of program spendingBehavioral health: Achievekids is committed to a positive school climate designed for individual and community learning. To meet the needs of our students, we have a behavioral health department that has professionals from the mental health field (mft's, msw's, lpcc's) and behavior analytics (bcba's and those training towards bcba). This diverse set of professionals and expertise allows us to adapt and meet the individual needs of our students. Using a variety of evidenced-based therapeutic approaches, mh and aba therapists conduct individual, group, and family therapy. Therapists work collaboratively with classrooms to ensure a consistent approach with measured social-emotional and behavioral learning. Data driven, we inform our instructional practices and positive behavioral supports with the collection of a variety of data points, including academic, behavioral, and social-emotional.
$581,033 spent$1,075,977 earned by the program6% of program spendingTransition: transition starts from the day we meet a student and family. Helping prepare a student with the skills necessary to be successful within their communities is important for their life-long success. The Achievekids team approaches helping make successful transitions through a variety of means, including individualized academic instruction, a focus on enhancing needed hard and soft skills, and by helping identify and develop tools necessary to navigate challenges the student is experiencing. In addition, Achievekids has a well-developed vocational education program, which includes coursework, vocational training, job coaching, job placements, and integration into the community for experience.vocational program: the vocational education program provides pre-employment training to all of our students and work experience (california department of education - workability 1 program) for students from ages 14 to 22, regardless of their specific level of capability. As a vital part of Achievekids' curriculum, vocational education provides a positive, encouraging, and highly structured program affording students with opportunities to learn valuable work and life skills.coaching…
$134,945 spent$177,384 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,990,097.
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 $11M to $12M (+14%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of ACHIEVEKIDS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Stephen Crook
Executive director
Board chair
Jesse Ebner
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $32k → $125k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 ACHIEVEKIDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
ACHIEVEKIDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
63% 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 ACHIEVEKIDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 32% · 2019 33% · 2020 22% · 2021 26% · 2022 30% · 2023 24% — 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
67% of ACHIEVEKIDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
51% of ACHIEVEKIDS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $411k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $433k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
ACHIEVEKIDS receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $844k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ACHIEVEKIDS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACHIEVEKIDS: 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 ACHIEVEKIDS?
- ACHIEVEKIDS (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,714 to it, the largest being THE GUZIK FOUNDATION ($140,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACHIEVEKIDS have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $843,714 in grants to ACHIEVEKIDS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVEKIDS?
- THE GUZIK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACHIEVEKIDS 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.
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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 31 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing