California · Nonprofit
FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY
FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $150 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($150). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $150
- Net assets
- $352k
What Fremont Debate Academy does
Mission
Teaching Debate to Grade 4-8th Students
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Teaching debate and public speaking to students across Fremont, CA in partnership with the school district. Fremont Debate Academy provided the curriculum, logistics support, and volunteers for programs. Over 800 students taught.
$12,088 spent54% of program spendingTeaching debate and public speaking to students during summer, at in-person programs (hosted in Fremont) and online programs. Over 200 students taught.
$8,411 spent38% of program spendingCreated and maintained website and online debate course, teaching hundreds of students across the world.
$1,734 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,233.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $151k to $268k (+78%).
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.
9% of FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Rishabh Meswani
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY’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.
Where its funders are
FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY
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.
Public support
91%
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 FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY: 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 FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY?
- FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $150 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($150). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $150 in grants to FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY.
- Who is the largest funder of FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREMONT DEBATE ACADEMY 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing