Virginia · Nonprofit
DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC
DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,509,815 to it, the largest being AT&T FOUNDATION ($1,325,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Distributive Education Clubs of America Inc does
Mission
Distributive education clubs of america, inc. (deca) prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and management.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educational services and scholarships - deca provides educational programs to high school and college students around the globe through its various conferences, competitive events, publications and resource materials. Deca is organized into two unique student divisions, the high school division and collegiate division, each with programs designed to address the learning styles, interests and focus of its members. Deca's student members leverage their deca experience to become academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, and experienced leaders. Deca enhances the preparation for college and careers by providing co-curricular educational programs that integrate into classroom instruction, applying learning in the context of business, connecting to businesses and the community and promoting competition. Deca sponsors conferences and competitive events each year to bring the high school and collegiate members into the larger deca community while providing unique opportunities to extend classroom learning. Advisory board and other projects - deca's business partners provide strategic advice on organizational policy, professional insight on content and crucial…
$8,282,622 spentof which $349,050 as grants$8,016,655 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,282,622.
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 $11M to $13M (+18%).
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: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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
Frank Peterson
Executive director
Board chair
Adam Lukoskie
National advisory board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
2 of 8 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $24k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ifa Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS 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
DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 89% — 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
50% of DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $97k on record.
- Department of Defense$97k
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 DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- DECA Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC?
- DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,509,815 to it, the largest being AT&T FOUNDATION ($1,325,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,509,815 in grants to DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC?
- AT&T FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 8 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