Washington · Nonprofit
PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE
PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,720 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($52,591). 2 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
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence does
Mission
PACE's mission is to promote and encourage the growth of quality high school academic tournaments around the country, to provide guidance or assistance to colleges or high schools that wish to organize academic tournaments, to encourage innovation and creativity in academic competition, to encourage quizbowl teams to participate in tournaments across the country prior to regional, state, or national championships, and to produce the question set for and run the National Scholastic Championship each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Hosted the 2025 National Scholastic Championship, a high school quizbowl tournament that attracted 84 teams (over 400students) from high schools around the country
$32,848 spentof which $400 as grants94% of program spendingFunded hsquizbowl.org, a website visited by thousands of people each day to learn about upcoming quizbowl events and discuss various quizbowl topics. Funding provided by Microsoft Azure Nonprofit Grant.
$120 spent0% of program spendingIssued scholarships to highly qualified high school graduates who demonstrated excellence in academics, community service, and quizbowl, along with financial need
$2,000 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,968.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $88k to $141k (+60%).
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.
5% of PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $8k.
2 of 2 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE’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
PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE'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. $53k 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
PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE
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.
Public support
84%
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 PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE: 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE?
- PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,720 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($52,591). 2 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $52,720 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,591 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION EXCELLENCE 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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