Washington · Nonprofit
EXPRESS ADVANTAGE
EXPRESS ADVANTAGE (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,526 to it, the largest being FINANCIAL PARTNERS CREDIT UNION ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $546k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $550k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Express Advantage does
Mission
Creating scalable and collaborative programs that create positive economic impact and financial resiliency for low income families and their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Financial Resiliency: Financial education and coaching focused on basic capabilities matched seamlessly with appropriate and flexible products and services allowing participants to gain access to financial products and services while keeping the low income families out of the clutches of high cost alternative financial service providers and high debt that allows them to increase assets and become financially resilient.
$0 spent0% of program spendingFinancial Accessibility to meet people, in distressed communities, where they are (social service agencies, Financial Empowerment Centers, etc.).
$0 spent0% of program spendingIncome Adequacy - Asset building programs that create opportunities that incentivize people to change savings and spending behavior.
$90,000 spent16% of program spendingOpportunity Knock$ Initiative - Season 2: PBS show that teaches financial literacy to families.
$490,500 spent84% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $580,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $20k to $1.7M (+8419%).
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.
100% of EXPRESS ADVANTAGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Mike Beall
Executive Director
Board chair
Stacy Augustine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $11.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 EXPRESS ADVANTAGE’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
EXPRESS ADVANTAGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
98% 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 EXPRESS ADVANTAGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
EXPRESS ADVANTAGE draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k 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
EXPRESS ADVANTAGE has grown faster than three-quarters 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 EXPRESS ADVANTAGE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXPRESS ADVANTAGE: 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 EXPRESS ADVANTAGE?
- EXPRESS ADVANTAGE (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,526 to it, the largest being FINANCIAL PARTNERS CREDIT UNION ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXPRESS ADVANTAGE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $549,526 in grants to EXPRESS ADVANTAGE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXPRESS ADVANTAGE?
- FINANCIAL PARTNERS CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXPRESS ADVANTAGE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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