California · Nonprofit
AVANCE SCHOOLS INC
AVANCE SCHOOLS INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,837 to it, the largest being UNIDOSUS ($230,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $288k
- Net assets
- $-1619030
What Avance Schools Inc does
Mission
Avance sets the standard for public charter school excellence via rigorous college and career preparation that inspires a lifetime of learning and leading.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The public charter school operated by the organization closed effective june 30, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Academia avance operated as a public charter school in highland park since 2004. We offer rigorous preparation for college, with realworld experiences in a professional setting. Avance ranks high in its college going rate with graduates from all the campuses of the university of california system, and most of the california state universities. Avance places quality education first, and values a professional culture of community, diversity and fiscal and social responsibility. The school closed effective june 30, 2025.
$3,853,946 spent$61,945 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,853,946.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.2M to $2.5M (−39%).
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 97% · 2018 111% · 2019 96% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 97% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of AVANCE SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Victor Aguirre
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $80k → $22.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 AVANCE SCHOOLS 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
AVANCE SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 AVANCE SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
AVANCE SCHOOLS INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
AVANCE SCHOOLS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AVANCE SCHOOLS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AVANCE SCHOOLS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Avance Community Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVANCE SCHOOLS 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 AVANCE SCHOOLS INC?
- AVANCE SCHOOLS INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,837 to it, the largest being UNIDOSUS ($230,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AVANCE SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $287,837 in grants to AVANCE SCHOOLS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVANCE SCHOOLS INC?
- UNIDOSUS is the largest funder on record, with $230,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVANCE SCHOOLS INC 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.
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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