South Carolina · Nonprofit
PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC
PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $271 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($271). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $271
- Net assets
- $-299395
What Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy Inc does
Mission
5the mission of pace is to provide students with an individualized, research-based educational experience that enables children, including those with language-based difficulties, to achieve academic excellence in the general education classroom thereby decreasing the need for experience that enables children, including those with language-based difficulties, to achieve academic excellence in the general education classroom thereby decreasing the need for direct special education services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Palmetto achievement center for excellence (pace) academy, an alternative education campus (aec), public charter school, provides evidence-based, multi-sensory, structured language instruction to students in the south carolina midlands. We are committed to providing a quality educational choice for students with dyslexia or other language-based learning differences who would benefit from orton-gillingham instructional methods. All students at pace academy attend an ace (academic core enrichment) class every day for 30-45 minutes. During this ace time, students are placed in groups based on their needs to help close the gap in phonological awareness and decoding skills. Students receive instruction using a structured literacy approach which includes project read (language circle enterprises) and other orton-gillingham based instruction. Pace opened as a new school in the fall of 2021 with 77% of the student population having documented disabilities: 16 students with a 504 plan and 127 students with an individual education plan (iep). Combined with the additional challenges of a global pandemic, many less determined individuals would have quit before they even started! Pace academy…
$3,092,848 spent$70,822 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,092,848.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $5.5M to $6.5M (+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: 2021 77% · 2022 94% · 2023 96% · 2024 97% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY 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. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $95 → $85.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY 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 PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC?
- PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $271 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($271). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $271 in grants to PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $271 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALMETTO ACHIEVEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2021–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing