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ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC

ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,776 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($310,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$123k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$428k
Net assets
$6k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Ascensions Community Services Inc does

Mission

Provide mental health services to disadvantaged community members regardless of their ability to pay. We provide individual and group therapy, conduct weekly psycho-educational workshops, mental wellness retreats, and community mental health education. In 2023 we provided services to 980 individuals and families. We conducted 40 workshops and panels on relationships, depression, anxiety, parenting, trauma informed care, and stress relief.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Served families and individuals in therapy, workshops, and community education. Hosted workshops in DC to help parents protect their children from sexual predators and grow healthier relationships with their daughters. Conducted 6 couples workshops for families living in DC's Ward 8. Conducted weekly psycho-education workshops and seminars.

    $108,606 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $108,606.

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 ($185k) Expenses 100 ($180k) Net assets 100 ($31k)2018 Revenue 108 ($199k) Expenses 129 ($233k) Net assets 8 ($3k)2019 Revenue 132 ($245k) Expenses 135 ($244k) Net assets 784 ($245k)2020 Revenue 170 ($315k) Expenses 169 ($305k) Net assets 1008 ($315k)2021 Revenue 185 ($342k) Expenses 311 ($560k) Net assets 308 ($96k)2022 Revenue 89 ($164k) Expenses 87 ($158k) Net assets 329 ($103k)2023 Revenue 66 ($123k) Expenses 80 ($145k) Net assets 75 ($24k)2024 Revenue 43 ($80k) Expenses 57 ($103k) Net assets 0 ($0)2025 Revenue 67 ($123k) Expenses 65 ($117k) Net assets 21 ($6k)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (65)Net assets (21)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 2018 to 2019, from $3k to $245k (+9210%).

$31k
$3k
$245k
$315k
$96k
$103k
$24k
$0
$6k
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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

85% of ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
−$34k
’18
$1k
’19
$10k
’20
−$219k
’21
$7k
’22
−$22k
’23
−$24k
’24
$6k
’25
7.8
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.

Board chair

Tyffani Monford Dent

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

2019202020212022
Listed4555
Joined·+1+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $59k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES 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

ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

73% 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 ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.

73%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 85% · 2022 86% · 2023 51% — 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.

Where its funders are

73% of ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 $117k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

WI
NY
DE
DC

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's revenue fell 33% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,776 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($310,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $427,776 in grants to ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 7 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