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ASCENT SOCCER USA

ASCENT SOCCER USA (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,399 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($308,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$680k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$162k
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Ascent Soccer USA does

Mission

To create pathways out of poverty for young people in Malawi by organizing awareness and fundraising events in support of Ascent soccer and education academy in Lilongwe as well as its alumni studying in the United States and Canada

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Funding for Ascent Soccer Academy in Lilongwe, Malawi. Funding includes transportation, education, sports equipment, field development, international playing opportunities, and coaching salaries.

  2. Salary payments, flights and reimbursements for Ascent Soccer Global Staff: George Maguire, Adrian Bradbury, Matt Harris, William White, Rory Murphy, Nicky Baldock, Joseph Dennison, Njabulo Dzonzi, Stephen Okot

  3. Expenses for Ascent Soccer alumni students attending school in the US, including tuition, transport, books and club soccer fees

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($373k) Expenses 100 ($325k) Net assets 100 ($143k)2021 Revenue 66 ($248k) Expenses 116 ($376k) Net assets 62 ($89k)2022 Revenue 68 ($254k) Expenses 122 ($395k) Net assets 5 ($7k)2023 Revenue 204 ($762k) Expenses 243 ($789k) Net assets 112 ($160k)2024 Revenue 150 ($558k) Expenses 140 ($455k) Net assets 78 ($112k)2025 Revenue 183 ($680k) Expenses 142 ($463k) Net assets 113 ($162k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (183)Expenses (142)Net assets (113)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 2022 to 2023, from $7k to $160k (+2231%).

$143k
$89k
$7k
$160k
$112k
$162k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ASCENT SOCCER USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’20
−$128k
’21
−$141k
’22
−$28k
’23
$103k
’24
$217k
’25
4.2
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed76611912
Joined·+1+1+5+2+3
No longer listed·21040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $16k → $234k.

7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 ASCENT SOCCER USA’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

ASCENT SOCCER USA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

84% 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 ASCENT SOCCER USA.

29%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 83% · 2021 31% · 2022 23% · 2023 64% — 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

60% of ASCENT SOCCER USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

70% of ASCENT SOCCER USA'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 $313k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 6 states.

NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
TX

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $738k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASCENT SOCCER USA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

WA
DC

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASCENT SOCCER USA?
ASCENT SOCCER USA (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,399 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($308,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ASCENT SOCCER USA have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,051,399 in grants to ASCENT SOCCER USA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASCENT SOCCER USA?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $308,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASCENT SOCCER USA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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