Washington · Nonprofit
Afghan Advantage
Afghan Advantage (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being IMPACT 100 SEATTLE ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Afghan Advantage does
Mission
Nurture Communication, Self-Reliance, Literacy and Leadership by Building Community Connections Through Increased Access to Information, Experiences, and Targeted Life Skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Afghan Advantage Builds a Bridge from Literacy to Leadership-From Isolation to Participation. 504 Student Slots, with 126 graduates annually. 89% average mastery of functional English/math/digital literacy on final exams and 75% increase in confidence and life skills necessary to leave home alone and engage in public life. AA+ is led by new Americans, educated Afghan women, for women who are pre-literate/low literacy in their native language of Dari or Pashto, non-English proficient, & socially isolated. Pods Literacy consists of 4 phonics-based modules offered quarterly to prepare students for community college ESL Level 1. Plus a monthly online seminar and in-person field trip on digital literacy, employment, and education. AA+ programs provide a critical literacy bridge so students can access community resources and participate fully in public life in the US. builds self-reliance with confidence and skills to pursue education, employment, and new opportunities.
$70,577 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,577.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sherry Lowe
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Afghan Advantage’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
Afghan Advantage leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 Afghan Advantage.
“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
74% of Afghan Advantage's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
Afghan Advantage runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Afghan Advantage
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Afghan Advantage: 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 Afghan Advantage?
- Afghan Advantage (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being IMPACT 100 SEATTLE ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Afghan Advantage have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $75,000 in grants to Afghan Advantage.
- Who is the largest funder of Afghan Advantage?
- IMPACT 100 SEATTLE is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Afghan Advantage 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 2025–2025), 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