Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC
ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $884,145 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($252,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $314k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $884k
- Net assets
- $768k
What Asset Builders of America Inc does
Mission
The mission of Asset Builders of America Inc. Is to deliver financial education and wealth-building strategies that enhance the quality of life of low-wealth youth, families and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The financial and investment challenge bowl (ficb) teaches high school students about budgeting, credit, economics, personal finance, and investing. Students form teams of four students each, study, practice, and eventually compete in a college-bowl tournament that showcases their knowledge and achievements in an atmosphere of friendly competition. Approximately 1400 students compete each year.
$201,879 spent$12,575 earned by the program95% of program spendingThe youth power academy of finance is a two-week personal finance and college readiness "boot camp" for students entering middle school and early high school students. About 20 students participate during the year.
$10,930 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,809.
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 2022 to 2023, from $320k to $599k (+87%).
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: 2017 57% · 2018 10% · 2019 16% · 2020 24% · 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC’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. 2 of the last 9 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
Richard Entenmann
Executive director
Board chair
Scott Beyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $36k → $127k.
3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA 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
ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 96% · 2019 71% · 2020 48% · 2021 49% · 2022 49% · 2023 39% — 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
31% of ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
92% of ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $317k 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.
Against its field
ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA 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 ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC?
- ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $884,145 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($252,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $884,145 in grants to ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $252,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 24 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