Washington · Nonprofit
ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS
ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,335 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($230,265). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $602k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $834k
- Net assets
- $279k
What Alexander Hamilton Scholars does
Mission
To build tomorrow's leaders and close the opportunity gap, as inspired by alexander hamilton's legacy of leadership through service. The organization empowers high-achieving, underserved students to succeed in college and career.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In this first year, we effectively introduce an extensive and rich network of support and practical guidance, designed to help scholars form a clear plan for senior year of high school, and ensure that they enroll in and ultimately graduate from, a college commensurate to their goals, abilities, and interests. College admissions professionals host sessions focused on the college search, the college essay, and the college application process, along with financial aid resources and procedures. This curriculum helps scholars make deliberate and empowered decisions regarding college and the management of the 500 hamilton scholarship, which is intended to help alleviate the burden of costs associated with college entrance exams, application fees, and other college access expenses. Scholars are also matched with individual peer and adult mentorship to help them navigate the college admissions process. In addition to assistance with college admissions, the college readiness curriculum also focuses on values and guiding principles. Those values direct the creation of each scholars' personal vision and mission statements, functioning as guides for goal setting and making tough choices…
$23,196 spent5% of program spendingIn year 2, throughout freshman year of college, ahs supports scholars with a curriculum focused on specific tools and habits of mind that will help maximize college success, in addition to discussing some of the social and emotional changes that come with entering college. The technical skills we teach include discussions of campus resources, financial aid, budgeting, day planning, and time management. We believe that effective time management and debt avoidance are essential to the success of college students. We also spend extensive time discussing how to successfully implement the vision portfolio and personal development plan (pdp) into daily life, how to be present pursuing ambitions goals, and how to access resources that will support mental health and wellness. Drawing on the network of scholars that have already experienced freshman year as a source of support and insight, ahs provides the connection, resources, and support needed to thrive during this important transition to college.
$29,671 spent6% of program spendingThe third-year leadership and service curriculum continues to focus on the importance of leadership through service, and also begins to look forward to the next big transition: college to career. Conference calls and exercises are designed around developing practical skills in areas including resume building, interviewing, networking, and use of the empowerment toolkit (vision portfolio, pdp, and the element) as a guide to internship and career exploration. These skills assist scholars with finding valuable internships that are meaningful and relevant to their pdp, and land jobs during college and post-graduation. We help scholars develop these skills through one-on-one resume reviews, mock interviews, and informative conference review sessions. The curriculum instills practical skills and valuable professional connections, while spending time contemplating more than just what scholars want to do for a living. We ask them to consider what they can do to impact the world and make positive change, and to ponder the question of how they can use their own exceptional talents to be of greater service.
$26,984 spent5% of program spendingExpenses: 0 including grants of: 0 revenue: 0 description: year 4&5. The career readiness and career transition curriculum becomes much more individualized, designed to meet each scholar where they are at in their specific college and career path. Conference calls focus on preparing for post undergraduate life, like graduate school, negotiating a compensation package, creating a personal brand, and processing current events with historical context. Through our vast professional network and internship program, we are able to accomplish the ultimate goal of these final two years of the program, providing scholars with career exposure and helping them build a professional network and leverage social capital. Expenses: 0 including grants of: 0 revenue: 0 description: independent internship scholarship. This significant component of our program is available to all hamilton scholars. We offer a summer internship in our office and have partnerships with various companies and organizations that give our scholars priority. With the skills, tools, and guidance we provide, scholars are empowered to find and strive for opportunities outside of our offerings as well. Many career advancement…
$411,962 spent84% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $491,813.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $560k to $345k (−38%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $13k → $133k.
10 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS’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
ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 44% · 2019 41% · 2020 31% · 2021 30% · 2022 22% · 2023 29% — 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
71% of ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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
63% of ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS'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. Of the $309k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $525k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS?
- ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,335 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($230,265). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $834,335 in grants to ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $230,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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