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ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC

ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE WELLS FOUNDATION UI ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$179k
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
$54k
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
0/8 repeat funders

Against its field

ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $54k to it.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,269 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
5
3

From the IRS filings of ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING 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

ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC 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

28%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

52% of ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

American Training Inc77%New England Laborers Training Trust Fund77%Centerboard Inc76%The Haven Project Inc76%Moving Forward Inc76%Autism Housing Pathways Inc76%Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc76%Mattapangreater Boston Technology Learning Center Inc75%

Nationally

Freedom Through Education77%American Training Inc77%The Neighborhood Hub77%New England Laborers Training Trust Fund77%Ascendium Education Solutions Inc76%Ascend Wilderness Experience76%Centerboard Inc76%The Haven Project Inc76%
04Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING 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 ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC?
ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE WELLS FOUNDATION UI ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $54,000 in grants to ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC.
Who is the largest funder of ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC?
GEORGE WELLS FOUNDATION UI is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing