California · Nonprofit
Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas
Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,880 to it, the largest being SMILES FOR HOPE FOUNDATION ($82,831). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $220k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $212k
- Net assets
- $-193585
What Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas does
Mission
To give direct aid to disadvantaged children and promote community development. Goals are achieved by supporting academics and arts programs for economically disadvantaged children and youth at risk volunteer construction binational community arts festivals Christmasgiving volunteer community arts installations and humanitarian aid.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Americas Foundation supported 220 economically disadvantaged students with partial or full scholarships averaging $540 each to study basic education and arts education at the La Esperanza schools. The full academic program included classes of instrumental and choral music ballet plastic arts computer science sports English and ecology.
$123,790 spentof which $119,000 as grants72% of program spendingThe Americas Foundation funded and coordinated the "More Art = Less Violence free arts instrumental music guitar jazz dance youth orchestra and volleyball programs for teens ages 12 to 17 years old. The Foundation purchased or acquired additional instruments for the youth orchestra promoted and provided instruction choreography costumes scenery equipment and classrooms for the Saturday and after school program that served 205 adolescents living in an underserved area. A performance concert involving all the More Art students was also along with with participation community arts festivals.
$26,963 spentof which $26,005 as grants16% of program spendingThe Americas Foundation sponsored volunteer work that included creation of large permanent international community mosaics arts projects painting maintenance construction creating organic vegetable gardens and more for kindergarten and elementary schools.
$11,147 spentof which $92,362 as grants6% of program spendingSponsorship of two international cultural festivals and the creation of two full length childrens ballets. The Spring festival highlighted the cuisine music arts and cultures of Suth America while the autumnn festival presented the Arts music cuisine and dance from different regions of Meixico. Each festival involved the participation of over 245 children and 495 adults.
$5,033 spentof which $4,075 as grants3% of program spendingChristmas Giving. The Americas Foundation funded and coordinated Christmas giving and holiday events including concerts and posadas celebrations for residents of underserved communities at the US Mexico border.
$5,687 spentof which $4,729 as grants3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $172,620.
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 2019 to 2020, from $98k to $194k (+99%).
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.
96% of Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $84k → $23k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas’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
Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 36% · 2023 53% — 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 Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas'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
52% of Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas'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 $101k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas?
- Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,880 to it, the largest being SMILES FOR HOPE FOUNDATION ($82,831). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $211,880 in grants to Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas?
- SMILES FOR HOPE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,831 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Americas Foundation-Fundacion De Las Americas find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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