ACE Mentor Program of Greater Charlotte Metro-North Carolina
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260556625
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,690
- Expenses
- $66,018
- Assets
- $128,588
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kym Gardner (Chairman)
- Logan Oliver (Treasurer)
- Brian King (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Enlighten and motivate students toward architecture, construction, engineering, and related careers, includeing both the skilled trades and professional pursuits. To provide mentoring and scholarship opportunities for future designers and constructors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual BanquetYearly program put on to showcase the students work in the meetings in which they present and compete against other schools. This allows us another fundraising opportunity with parents and corporate sponsors in attendance. We present all scholarships during this event as well.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 63% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.