Washington · Nonprofit
ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP
ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,500 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($84,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $363k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $214k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Adefua Cultural Education Workshop does
Mission
Adefua Cultural Education Workshop (A.C.E.W) WHO WE ARE (A.C.E.W), is a non-profit Organization that is central to youth and families within and surrounding Seattle communities. Providing year-round various interactive activities that engage, serves and have available West African experiences, both academically and socially to all generations. ADEFUA Vision Statement: Our vision is to enhance, maintain and sustain an African Arts Cultural Center that promotes jobs, economic development and arts education which influences healthy living and an intergenerational legacy. ADEFUA Mission: Our mission is create, expand and offer options for youth to enhance growth, personal development, and academic success through the study of African culture, music and dance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Classes, Events and Educational Programming Dance and Drum Classes Starting Classes are offered to Youth and Adults African Dance African Drumming Youth Performance Ensemble School Programs ADEFUA works in the preservation of Folkloric West African Cultures to youth and children. We are available to present performances, educational workshops, and inter-active celebrations for all occasions. Community Dance and exercises and LIVE Drumming Class. We also travel to Guinea once a year if possible.
$11,293 spent$70,011 earned by the program14% of program spendingWe have opened up a space for workshops, meeting and group travel to Africa planning. We are the PNW Premier Provider for African Cultural & Heritage Activities, Gatherings, Lessons and Artifact Display. ADEFUA Cultural Education Workshop is both locally and widely recognized as the proud Cultural Anchor for the African Cultural Arts Center, LLC.
$13,499 spent16% of program spendingRainier Valley Creative District-(RVCD), a is focusing on developing and maintaining relationships with community agencies, cultural councils, school districts, scholars, parents and education-focused organizations. Rainier Valley Creative District-(RVCD), values group cohesion, individual responsibility and personal development. Rainier Valley Creative District-(RVCD), recognizes and encourages individual with everyone working towards the same objectives; To unify the five neighborhoods in Rainier Valley through Art and Culture.
$383 spent0% of program spendingThe ACAC will be a state-of-the-art cultural facility dedicated to African history, dance, music, and the arts, offering: Art Gallery & Exhibit Spaces showcasing African and African American art and cultural artifacts. Indoor & Outdoor Performance Spaces for dance, music, and storytelling. Classrooms & Workshop Studios for cultural education, drumming, and dance. Artist Residency & Studio Spaces to nurture creative expression. Commercial Kitchen & Café for culinary experiences and community gatherings. ADEFUA Administrative Offices to coordinate cultural programs and events.
$57,265 spentof which $79,575 as grants$80,569 earned by the program69% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $82,440.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $19k to $52k (+183%).
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.
88% of ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Afua Kouyate'
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $54k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP’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
ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 73% · 2023 47% — 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
85% of ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP
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
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP: 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 ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP?
- ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,500 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($84,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $213,500 in grants to ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $84,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADEFUA CULTURAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing