Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Feb 2012.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
73 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
7 people listed on the 990; $375K paid to officers and key staff.
Marquise Dixon’s $145K as CEO is at the 61st percentile of top reported officer pay among 3395 $1–10M education nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 6 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Herron | — | $150,250 | $149,000 | $130,800 | $112,000 |
| Marquise Dixon | $144,656 | $115,742 | — | — | — |
| Jacob Fornier | — | — | $135,950 | — | — |
| Kelly Bay-Meyer | $125,405 | $109,342 | $101,197 | — | — |
| Alexander Jeanbaptiste | — | — | $117,322 | — | — |
| Thomas Kim | $104,920 | — | — | — | — |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Helps under-served students succeed in college.
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Seed
Provided direct service in tacoma-seattle to recruit, select, train and support 58 interns with paid, professional summer internships at 10 partner employers in pierce and king counties. Provided direct service in tacoma to support 24 scholars on 1 college campus who want to be educators.
Foyost
Operated a software web service to help college success organizations and high schools easily visualize their students' college enrollment and quickly calculate persistence and completion metrics. This tool was sold in march 2023 but we retained an exclusive license to sell it in wa state.
Act Six
Provided direct service support to 366 scholars, including 90 new graduates, across 17 partner private liberal arts colleges on full scholarships from seattle-tacoma, spokane, yakima, portland-salem, minneapolis-st. Paul, chicago and indianapolis.
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2025 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY25 | End FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $973K | $291K |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $0 | $0 |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $1.3M | $516K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $255K | $146K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $1.0M | $370K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $168K | $122K | $18K | $28K |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $890K | $647K | $95K | $147K |
| Pension plan contributionsLn 8 | $34K | $25K | $4K | $6K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $83K | $60K | $9K | $14K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $88K | $64K | $9K | $15K |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $3K | $2K | $221 | $535 |
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $21K | $15K | $2K | $4K |
| Professional fundraising feesLn 11e | $24K | $24K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $269K | $191K | $23K | $55K |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $2K | $2K | $299 | $164 |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $34K | $27K | $5K | $3K |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $74K | $60K | $2K | $11K |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $76K | $61K | $8K | $8K |
| TravelLn 17 | $8K | $6K | $2K | $23 |
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $7K | $3K | $3K | $1K |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $28K | $28K | ||
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $1.8M | $1.3M | $180K | $316K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest Viewing | $1.2M | $1.8M | −$659K | $370K | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 | $2.2M | $2.3M | −$103K | $1.0M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $2.3M | $3.2M | −$850K | $1.1M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $1.7M | $3.1M | −$1.4M | $2.0M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $3.1M | $2.6M | $466K | $3.4M | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2025 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $1,150,130 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 4 of 4 board members independent, 1 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $1,150,130 across 8 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $1,809,336 across 16 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $515,711 assets, 15 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $369,832 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2025 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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