Hawaii · Nonprofit
ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT
ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($51). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $51
- Net assets
- $-6456
What Advancement of Civilization Effort does
Mission
ACE's primary exempt purpose is to advance education, scientific research, and community development through programs that cultivate human potential, ethical intelligence, ecological awareness, and sustainable civilization design. ACE develops and shares research, workshops, retreats, ecotourism experiences, and community outreach related to contemplative practice, wellness, applied physics, EEG/BCI technologies, AI ethics and governance, and long-horizon sustainable community models. ACE's long-term purpose includes acquiring land and resources for a sustainable community and research institute where residents, members, visitors, and participants can train in practices and technologies that support higher human potential, moral development, responsible energy use, and beneficial human-AI co-evolution, informed by frameworks such as the Kohlberg and Kardashev scales.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ecotourism, Sustainability, Retreat Infrastructure, and Community-Based Program Development: ACE continued developing the foundation for its ecotourism and retreat-based program services in 2025. This included applying for a Public Utilities Commission permit to operate as a motor passenger carrier in support of ACE's emerging ecotourism program and purchasing a vehicle for this purpose: a 2025 Honda Pilot. The ecotourism program is intended to provide educational visitor experiences, sustainable transportation, island etiquette education, wellness-oriented excursions, and community-aligned activities connected to ACE's mission of ecological awareness, ethical development, and sustainable civilization design. The PUC permit process was pursued in 2025 and was subsequently granted in March 2026. ACE also continued developing the conceptual and operational framework for future workshops and retreats related to wellness, contemplative practice, ecological awareness, human potential, and responsible engagement with Kaua'i. These activities support ACE's long-term goal of acquiring land and resources for a sustainable community and research institute where residents, members, visitors,…
$15,000 spent68% of program spendingResearch, Publications, AI Ethics, and BCI Development: ACE advanced its research and publication program in 2025, with emphasis on artificial intelligence ethics, human potential, consciousness studies, and brain-computer interface research. During the year, ACE acquired brain-computer interface equipment and began developing experimental designs for EEG/BCI-based studies related to meditation, coherence, attention, and subjective-objective research methods. ACE also published the first paper in a planned three-paper AI ethics and governance series on Zenodo, establishing the initial public research foundation for ACE's work on synthetic inwardness, ethical intelligence, and human-AI co-evolution. In addition to the publicly released whitepaper, ACE continued drafting and organizing longer-form research and educational writings, including the Master Narrative and a companion volume related to physics, consciousness, and civilizational development. These writings support ACE's long-term goal of developing a sustainable research institute that integrates objective scientific methods, subjective contemplative disciplines, AI ethics, and applied technologies for the advancement of…
$5,000 spent23% of program spendingEducation, Youth Innovation, Community Outreach, and Public Learning: ACE continued educational and community outreach activities in 2025, including youth-centered program design, public demonstrations, newsletters, and local community engagement. ACE designed an Innovation Club intended for implementation at Hanalei School during the 2026-2027 school year, with the goal of introducing students to creativity, science, technology, engineering, ethics, sustainability, and hands-on problem solving. ACE also participated in Hanalei School Market Day with a geode exhibit, providing a public educational display related to geology, natural systems, and scientific curiosity. ACE sent two newsletters to its community and supporter list, maintaining public communication about ACE's mission, development, and emerging programs. These outreach efforts support ACE's broader exempt purpose of education, moral development, scientific literacy, and community-based learning. They also serve as early-stage infrastructure for future workshops, retreats, youth programs, and public educational events.
$1,000 spent5% of program spendingWebsite, Communications, and Institutional Infrastructure: ACE rebuilt and substantially updated its public website in 2025, replacing an older site that had not been significantly updated since approximately 2018. The new website provides a clearer public-facing explanation of ACE's mission, program areas, research direction, long-term sustainable community vision, and emerging work in AI ethics, BCI research, ecotourism, education, and community development. ACE also preserved its older archived website, which documents the organization's earlier history, writings, project architecture, and long-range vision. This communications infrastructure is an important program service because ACE's work is educational, research-based, and public-facing. The website and newsletters allow ACE to distribute research, explain programs, engage supporters, prepare for funding outreach, and make its educational materials available to the public.
$1,000 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
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.
0% of ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11 → $40.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51 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
ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT's revenue fell 34% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Hawaii
Nationally
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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 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT?
- ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($51). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $51 in grants to ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION EFFORT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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