Ohio · Nonprofit
ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION
ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,539 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($12,717). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $251k
What Achieving Standards of Excellence Foundation does
Mission
Educational Excellence
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Awarded traditional scholarships to 19 high school students totaling $33,500.00; awarded 8 $10,500.00 in renewable . Committee expenses of $1342.00
$45,342 spent80% of program spendingMiddle School Recognition Program where over 500 Columbus City School 8th grade students were recognized for achieving a 3.5 and above Grade Point Average.
$4,662 spent8% of program spendingAkadette Girls Club mentored 50 high school students to achieve educational excellence and to develop leadership skills; and provide community service.
$1,984 spent3% of program spendingASOEF Leaders in Training Excellence LITE Girls Club - mentored 22 middle school young ladies to achieve educational excellence and to develop leadership skills
$2,174 spent4% of program spendingAnnual Board Dinner - where outgoing board members and committee chairmen were recognized; installed new board members. Held election of officers for the upcoming year
$860 spent2% of program spendingAnnual Meeting - Scholarship Reception - Provided the community the noteworthy accomplishments for the year 2022
$1,226 spent2% of program spendingVendor Table Fees UpLift Her AMMWA Suicide Prevention. ASOEF passed out brochures and provided positive affirmations.
$619 spent1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,867.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $221k to $240k (+9%).
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.
91% of ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lilia Cabezas-Johnson
Executive Director
Board chair
Veronica A Carter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $6k → $5k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION’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
ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 85% · 2023 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,892 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,892 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
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 ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: 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 ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION?
- ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,539 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($12,717). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $32,539 in grants to ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,717 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACHIEVING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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