Kentucky · Nonprofit
PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC
PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being CALIPARI FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $310k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $116k
What Pearse Lyons Ace Foundation Inc Fka the Margin of Excellence Inc does
Mission
To provide educational and charitable activities in the united states and around the world to enhance and improve the quality of life of those in need. To provide scholarships, organize community service projects and build schools and housing for victims of natural disasters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Haiti relief fund to provide direct assistance to the haitian people with the goal of rebuilding lives. The foundation supports two haitian primary schools by improving and upgrading school buildings and providing financial support for operations, including teacher salaries, maintenance, supplies and meals for the students. When one of the schools was notified that its building would no longer be available, the foundation provided financial support to help construct a new building. The new building offers space for even more children than the school was previously able to serve.
$49,878 spent13% of program spendingThe vocal scholarship program is a competition held in partnership with the university of kentucky. It is open to all new voice students who plan to attend the university of kentucky. The competition awards tuition and other grants to graduate and undergraduate students. The winners are determined by a panel of outside professionals in the music field and are not determined by the foundation.
$52,748 spentof which $52,748 as grants13% of program spendingThe foundation works to serve rural and farming communities impacted by natural disasters, such as this year's historic floods in spain. The foundation is also assisting families displaced by natural disasters in tennessee, kentucky and north carolina by installing community gardens to help combat food insecurity. The foundation provides financial support to a local organization that is committed to ending intimate partner abuse in families and the community. Support was also extended to food shelves, cancer-related causes, and mental health charities.
$293,573 spentof which $286,673 as grants74% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $396,199.
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 2020 to 2021, from $104k to $272k (+161%).
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.
96% of PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE 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
PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
91% 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 PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
90% of PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC's revenue grew 70% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC?
- PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being CALIPARI FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $93,500 in grants to PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC?
- CALIPARI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEARSE LYONS ACE FOUNDATION INC FKA THE MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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