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ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC

ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,857 to it, the largest being Brees Dream Foundation ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$17M
Revenue FY2025
18
Funders on record
$431k
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
8/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($10M) Expenses 100 ($9.6M) Net assets 100 ($5.8M)2018 Revenue 106 ($11M) Expenses 112 ($11M) Net assets 102 ($5.9M)2019 Revenue 110 ($11M) Expenses 116 ($11M) Net assets 105 ($6.0M)2020 Revenue 124 ($13M) Expenses 115 ($11M) Net assets 128 ($7.4M)2021 Revenue 107 ($11M) Expenses 116 ($11M) Net assets 119 ($6.9M)2022 Revenue 122 ($13M) Expenses 128 ($12M) Net assets 124 ($7.2M)2023 Revenue 142 ($15M) Expenses 141 ($14M) Net assets 144 ($8.3M)2024 Revenue 154 ($16M) Expenses 151 ($15M) Net assets 168 ($9.7M)2025 Revenue 165 ($17M) Expenses 165 ($16M) Net assets 190 ($11M)
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Revenue (165)Expenses (165)Net assets (190)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
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2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 85% · 2018 86% · 2019 87% · 2020 91% · 2021 89% · 2022 91% · 2023 93% · 2024 94% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$685k
17
$124k
18
$138k
19
$1.6M
20
$205k
21
$270k
22
$1.1M
23
$1.3M
24
$1.2M
25
1.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $208k → $21k.

6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of Franklin). These are real filings, and they are not money ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 18 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

ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC.

46%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 55% · 2019 86% · 2020 69% · 2021 52% · 2022 54% · 2023 39%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

27% of ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 8 states in all.

NH
NY
MA
OH
DE
LA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $91k on record.

Federal$91k
grants $91kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$91k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Louisiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Friends of Franklin · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC?
ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,857 to it, the largest being Brees Dream Foundation ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $430,857 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC?
Brees Dream Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing