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AMERICA SUCCEEDS

AMERICA SUCCEEDS (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,774,005 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,350,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
$1.4M
9/27 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What America Succeeds does

Mission

America Succeeds' mission is to engage business leaders in modernizing education systems to drive equity and opportunity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. America Succeeds is uniquely positioned between business and the education policy sector. Our portfolio of work bridges and connects these two distinct constituencies with advocacy efforts aimed at larger culture change and policy efforts to help move the education system towards our vision.

  2. Researched durable skills demand and education, and developed and distributed a framework to create a common lexicon around what someone should know and be able to do related to durable skills when entering the workforce and developed guides for educators and institutions from early childhood through postsecondary education in embedding and assessing durable skills.

    $1,748,088 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,748,088.

02The 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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($698k)2018 Revenue 142 ($1.6M) Expenses 131 ($1.5M) Net assets 122 ($853k)2019 Revenue 137 ($1.6M) Expenses 110 ($1.2M) Net assets 171 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 70 ($805k) Expenses 72 ($817k) Net assets 170 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 75 ($869k) Expenses 83 ($941k) Net assets 159 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 81 ($931k) Expenses 97 ($1.1M) Net assets 136 ($950k)2023 Revenue 102 ($1.2M) Expenses 110 ($1.2M) Net assets 127 ($886k)2024 Revenue 166 ($1.9M) Expenses 121 ($1.4M) Net assets 203 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 168 ($1.9M) Expenses 177 ($2.0M) Net assets 195 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (177)Net assets (195)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $911k to $1.5M (+61%).

$721k
$935k
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$993k
$911k
$1.5M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 14% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of AMERICA SUCCEEDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’17
$154k
’18
$344k
’19
−$12k
’20
−$73k
’21
−$162k
’22
−$64k
’23
$546k
’24
−$53k
’25
6.5
months of
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.

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Listed67699991215
Joined·+1+1+3+1+1+1+9+3
No longer listed·02011160
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $264k → $906k.

5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 AMERICA SUCCEEDS’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

AMERICA SUCCEEDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

32% 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 SUCCEEDS.

23%
largest funder
47%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 53% · 2019 71% · 2020 69% · 2021 32% · 2022 25% · 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

10% of AMERICA SUCCEEDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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

AMERICA SUCCEEDS draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 16 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
AR
DC
GA
TX

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICA SUCCEEDS is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve6.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like AMERICA SUCCEEDS

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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 8%Fundraising 4%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICA SUCCEEDS?
AMERICA SUCCEEDS (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,774,005 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,350,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICA SUCCEEDS have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $5,774,005 in grants to AMERICA SUCCEEDS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICA SUCCEEDS?
Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICA SUCCEEDS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing