New York · Nonprofit
Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc
Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $684,159 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($584,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $684k
- Net assets
- $0
What Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc does
Mission
Provide teens in poverty with the critical support, consistency, and accountability necessary to overcome barriers and reach their fullest potential - ceased operations in 2024.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Champion Academy permanently ceased operations on July 1st, 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Champion Academy permanently ceased operations on July 1st, 2024. A formal resolution to dissolve was adopted by the board of directors and will be filed with the state. This Form 990 is filed as a final return.
$18,238 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,238.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $197k to $3k (−98%).
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: 2019 4% · 2020 12% · 2021 8% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Roland Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $160k → $25k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative 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
Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 49% · 2022 46% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
88% of Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative 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 $84k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $601k 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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative 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 Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc?
- Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $684,159 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($584,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $684,159 in grants to Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc?
- ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $584,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 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