California · Nonprofit
ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE
ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,779,039 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($522,350). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $163k
What Acknowledge Alliance does
Mission
Acknowledge Alliance is dedicated to promoting lifelong resilience in children and youth, and strengthening the caring capacity of the adults who influence their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The resilience consultation program, serving k-8 schools, provides a unique approach to healthier school environments, improving social-emotional learning (sel) competencies and reducing the impacts of mental health for school leaders, teachers, and students. The work we do with this population includes teacher and principal support through one-on-one coaching, trainings, professional development, classroom observations; 3rd - 8th grade social-emotional learning (sel) lessons; and student counseling. Many of the schools we serve are underperforming with a large majority of the students on the free or reduced meal plan. Students may be facing adversities such as experiencing early childhood trauma including developing mental health issues, living in home environments with stress and anxiety, and experiencing poverty, hunger, and stress that each inhibits a positive learning experience.acknowledge resilience program staff, comprised of a team of mental health and education professionals, meet with teachers in their classrooms and principals to offer support and implement ways to make school a healthy, positive place. Our direct work with educators helps them discover their unique…
$927,334 spent78% of program spendingThe counseling program for at-risk and underserved multi-cultural youth at beechwood school in san mateo county serves students with complex trauma, facing significant life adversities - victims of domestic and community violence, poverty, racism, and undiagnosed learning and mental health issues. Our licensed mft provides on-site (and telehealth) mental health counseling. Our unique long term therapy model is strengths and relationship-based and promotes self-reflection and internal change that leads to positive outcomes. We believe in these youth, and their abilities to grow and thrive. We hold high expectations of them so they, in turn, will believe in their ability to succeed. Through culturally sensitive, trauma-informed individual and group psychotherapy services, we foster psychological well-being and the development of skills necessary for youth to safely process trauma and ongoing adversities and be able to move forward in their lives.the youth who receive our counseling services gain insight into how their life experiences drive their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; learn to regulate their responses to emotional stimuli; become more empowered to speak up and advocate…
$167,455 spent14% of program spendingThe outreach program increases awareness and understanding of our work and its connection to the mental health and educational systems at the local, state, and national levels. Our outreach program disseminates communications focused on the critical role that resilience, social-emotional learning, and long-term therapeutic relationships play in the well-being of youth and educators. Services include presentations for professionals working with youth, collaboration with community partners, and leveraging our expertise to enhance youth social-emotional wellness programs, as well as elevating and advocating issues related to mental health and education.
$97,759 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,192,548.
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 $404k to $1.1M (+182%).
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: 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 8% · 2021 24% · 2022 15% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% 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.
Board chair
Lowell Boyd
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $197k → $205k.
6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 45% · 2019 31% · 2020 30% · 2021 23% · 2022 25% · 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
52% of ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
83% of ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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
ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE: 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 ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE?
- ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,779,039 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($522,350). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,779,039 in grants to ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $522,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE 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 38 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