New York · Nonprofit
AMERICA ACHIEVES INC
AMERICA ACHIEVES INC (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,373,093 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($22,032,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $87M
- Net assets
- $11M
What America Achieves Inc does
Mission
America achieves is devoted to advancing economic and educational opportunity, mobility, and pathways to good jobs and careers, including for low- and moderate-income and other underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Tech hubs planning and initial implementation supportwe successfully provided technical assistance to regional coalitions applying to become federal tech hubs and supported initial implementation of their plans, with a key focus on embedding career pathways and fair access to economic opportunity. This followed our previous successful efforts to encourage congress to enact the initial $500 million for this federal tech hubs program. We supported a total of 13 regions across phases I and ii of the tech hubs competition, of which six ultimately received large-scale implementation grants a win rate of 46%, more than 15 times the national win rate. (continued on schedule o)together, the six hubs we helped design accounted for a total of $225 million in federal funding.america achieves worked with each regional coalition to advise on or draft its overall tech hubs plan, apply for federal funding, and develop implementation plans. This included, but was not limited to, creating and expanding effective career pathways aligned to the hiring and economic development needs of each tech hub. These six regions, along with five other finalists we supported, have economic development and career…
$9,473,078 spentof which $1,680,000 as grants$150,000 earned by the program100% of program spendingHelping local regions implement tech hubs, build back better regional challenge, and good jobs challenge grantswe actively supported implementation for many of these tech hub regions. Beyond the tech hubs we supported in implementation, we also supported implementation for regions receiving build back better regional challenge grants and good jobs challenge grants other federal programs we helped design. This included helping advance their workforce strategies through our education-to-employment (e2e) applied professional learning cohort, which included workshops featuring regional exemplars from across the country, peer learning, and technical assistance. (continued on schedule o)we also deployed technical assistance teams to provide customized support to four of these regional coalitions, along with an applied professional learning cohort for 11 regions. We partnered with brookings metro to support this community of practice, along with accompanying research briefs and webinars to share insights and emerging evidence from inclusive economic initiatives across the country.this support helped regions in the early phase of implementing these grants. With our support, these regions…
$47,000 spentof which $47,000 as grants0% of program spendingThe good jobs economy initiativein the summer of 2025, america achieves completed a multi-year plan for, and launched with the national governors association (nga), the good jobs economy initiative a bipartisan initiative to modernize state and regional talent systems while scaling effective programs to connect over a million americans to good jobs. We are especially focused on helping states and local regions do this in a rapidly changing economy, including in ai-impacted labor markets. Our aim is to help build a prosperous, competitive nation where local residents have clear pathways to good jobs, employers access the talent they need, and communities can drive inclusive economic growth. (continued on sch. O)to do so, we work alongside governors, states, and local regions to align education and workforce training with economic priorities and employer hiring needs and to connect residents to good jobs.to support governors in translating this vision into measurable outcomes, the good jobs economy initiative provides a clear state-level and local operating framework the good jobs talent systems framework. Our good jobs strategy aligns three essential elements that too often…
Track record: designing and delivering at scaleamerica achieves is a national nonprofit organization working with states, regions, and local partners to ensure more people especially young people and adults who struggle to enter or stay in the middle class, including those without college degrees, not yet earning self-sustaining wages, and living in underserved communities have clear pathways to good jobs, regardless of who they are, where they live, or whether they have a college degree. Equal opportunity is central to our strategy and embedded in the design of our work, with a particular focus on expanding access to strong career launch and career boost/pivot outcomes for populations historically or otherwise excluded from fair access to economic opportunity. Founded in 2011 as an "action tank" connecting ideas, people, and resources to advance economic opportunity, we help leaders develop, launch, and scale initiatives delivering measurable outcomes and regional economic opportunities. We operate at the intersection of policy design, systems building, and on-the-ground implementation. Over time, we have: conceived of and launched matriculate, a national nonprofit that provides…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,520,078.
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 2022 to 2023, from $20M to $6.9M (−66%).
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.
99% of AMERICA ACHIEVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Jon Schnur
CEO
Board chair
Keith Frome
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $3.9M → $6.3M.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $250k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Emmet Family Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICA ACHIEVES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICA ACHIEVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
AMERICA ACHIEVES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
53% 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 AMERICA ACHIEVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 29% · 2019 28% · 2020 45% · 2021 64% · 2022 38% · 2023 24% — 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
23% of AMERICA ACHIEVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
AMERICA ACHIEVES INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
AMERICA ACHIEVES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICA ACHIEVES INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICA ACHIEVES 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICA ACHIEVES INC?
- AMERICA ACHIEVES INC (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,373,093 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($22,032,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICA ACHIEVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $87,373,093 in grants to AMERICA ACHIEVES INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICA ACHIEVES INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $22,032,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICA ACHIEVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 41 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