Georgia · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC
AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,851 to it, the largest being THE JIM AND BILLIE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC ($165,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $414k
- Net assets
- $218k
What American Caribbean Experience Inc does
Mission
American-caribbean experience is a christ-based outreach ministry dedicated to community transformation in the parish of st. Mary, jamaica through strategic initiatives in education, enterprise, healthcare, and discipleship.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education - in 2024, ace's sponsorship program expanded from just child sponsorships for preschool through 12th grade to also include special education sponsorships, college fund sponsorships, family sponsorships, and apprenticeships. This allows ace to prolong its impact for the next generation and help children succeed as they enter adulthood. Apprenticeships in 2024 allowed special needs adults to find joy in entering new stages of life by working on ace's green life farm and earning their living. Ace also helped meet the physical and educational needs of our sponsored children and their families through events like backpack distribution days, which equipped 157 students with the supplies they need to thrive academically, and gifting christmas groceries to 33 sponsored families in need. By hosting educational field trips for our special needs students, as well as quarterly birthday parties and christmas parties for all of our sponsored students, ace was able to build confidence in our youth and strengthen the well-being of their entire families.
$309,209 spentof which $246,137 as grants26% of program spendingHealthcare - 2024 marked the year that ace was finally able to get back to the true heartbeat of our mission post-covid, serving in our schools and communities. While the government-run infirmary still hasn't opened to groups, we have found more "shut-ins and disabled adults" living on their own and barely surviving right in our own community. So, we started our own elderly ace mobile infirmary (ami) visits. Through this new program and with the help of our amazing volunteers, we've been able to meet so many basic and unique needs in the community for over 100 seniors, from building relationships and bringing food and water to building ace's first 8x8 ft. Tiny home for a man who had suffered a stroke several years ago and was left alone in a yard with an old home that was falling apart and leaked when it rained.additionally, several teams of licensed health providers came down to volunteer their time and host medical and dental clinics in the community, providing essential care to those in need, from treating diabetes and high blood pressure to offering spiritual encouragement. During these medical trips, we saw multiple generations of families serving together, a testament to how…
$99,580 spentof which $40,159 as grants8% of program spendingEnterprise - in september 2024, ace finalized the purchase of its 840-acre farm, which serves as the foundation for our micro-business initiatives, including raising cattle, harvesting honey through capt. Bee's honey, making chocolate through cloud 9 chocolate, and growing crops in aeroponic towers through green life fresh! Even after hurricane beryl destroyed our greenhouses and caused us to rebuild, ace was able to raise the funds for more than 100 new 9 ft. Aeroponic growing towers, which will allow us to grow and supply pure, clean food to the community, as well as hotels with a large demand.paying off the farm and officially owning the land opens doors for even greater impact, as we can empower people in the community to improve sustainability in the parish and create dozens of jobs, often for those with special needs and single mothers looking to support their families and break cycles of poverty. Owning the land also enables ace to move forward with the plans for a green life learning center, where high school students who have come through our program will be able to come for continued support in getting up to par in reading, math, english, and the arts.
$648,515 spentof which $589,094 as grants$390,179 earned by the program55% of program spendingDiscipleship - ace continued our weekly discipleship nights at the peace house to provide people in our community with a free meal, social activities, and gospel-driven conversations surrounding common challenges people face on a daily basis. Additionally, in february, ace hosted our annual men's & women's conference, a three-night event filled with worship music, a great message, and our desire to spread god's word to everyone. This past year's event was moved to an open-air venue at buccaneers jerk & juice centre, so we could expand our reach and welcome over 150 people into a time of worship and discipleship. One of the most inspiring moments from our 2024 conference was seeing lashauna, a young woman who has been unable to go anywhere but her bed, house, and hospital for 21 years; she attended the conference for the first time in her brand-new wheelchair donated by her sponsors.
$123,766 spentof which $60,696 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,181,070.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.9M to $223k (−88%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Marla Day-Fitzwater
Executive director
Board chair
Steve Guy
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $28k.
7 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC’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
AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 66% · 2021 52% · 2022 67% · 2023 58% — 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
40% of AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
60% of AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC'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 $166k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Travel Team Brokers Inc · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC?
- AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,851 to it, the largest being THE JIM AND BILLIE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC ($165,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $413,851 in grants to AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC?
- THE JIM AND BILLIE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 9 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