California · Nonprofit
ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD
ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,087 to it, the largest being EMMAUS TODAY INCORPORATED ($159,359). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $259k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Advancing Students Forward does
Mission
Advancing Students Forward (asf) provides access to secondary and post-secondary education for low-income students in colonia tecolote, tijuana, mexico, by addressing financial and structural barriers that often prevent students from continuing their education beyond elementary school.asf serves approximately 70 students annually from middle school through university or technical completion. Students are selected based on demonstrated financial need, academic potential, and residency within the surrounding community. Each year, approximately ten new students entering seventh grade are admitted into the program.asf operates a long-term, cohort-based student success model that combines partial financial scholarships with structured academic support, leadership development, enrichment activities, community service, and social-emotional learning. Students are required to participate in monthly meetings, maintain academic standards, and remain engaged in program activities.most students rem
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student success and support programAdvancing Students Forward (asf) provides a structured, multi-year student success program serving approximately 70 students annually in colonia tecolote, tijuana, mexico. The program combines financial assistance with academic, leadership, and social-emotional support to help students complete their secondary and post-secondary education.students participate in required monthly meetings that include academic check-ins, team-building activities, leadership development, and educational workshops. University-level participants serve as peer leaders and assist in facilitating meetings and presentations.asf provides partial financial support for school-related expenses, educational supplies, and access to technology. The organization operates a student center that offers a supervised space for studying, internet access, homework support, and peer collaboration.the program includes social-emotional learning and individualized guidance delivered by a team that includes counselors, educators, administrative staff, and trained volunteers. Support is tailored to student needs to promote academic persistence and personal development.asf conducts…
$113,380 spent65% of program spendingEducational scholarship programAdvancing Students Forward (asf) provides need-based educational scholarships to approximately 70 low-income students annually in tijuana, mexico, enabling them to continue their education beyond elementary school.in mexico, families are generally responsible for tuition, uniforms, books, transportation, and related school expenses beginning in middle school. These costs create significant barriers to continued enrollment. Asf scholarships are designed to partially offset these expenses and reduce the financial burden on families.scholarships are distributed on a monthly basis and are contingent upon students meeting program requirements, including attendance at monthly meetings, participation in service activities, and maintenance of academic standards.in addition to receiving financial assistance, students may participate in work-study opportunities within the asf community center. Through these roles, students provide office support, peer tutoring, and assistance with educational programming, including homework support, english, and computer instruction for neighborhood youth. Students also assist in organizing and staffing an annual summer…
$61,890 spentof which $61,400 as grants35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $175,270.
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 $571k to $2.2M (+291%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Odesma Dalrymple
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $159k → $37k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD’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
ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 53% — 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
50% of ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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
ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD's revenue grew 30% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD
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
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD: 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 ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD?
- ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,087 to it, the largest being EMMAUS TODAY INCORPORATED ($159,359). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $259,087 in grants to ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD?
- EMMAUS TODAY INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $159,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCING STUDENTS FORWARD 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 8 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