Advocates for a Community College Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934898615
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- South Yarmouth, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5083989300
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,971
- Expenses
- $82,982
- Assets
- $302,049
- Liabilities
- $90,880
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rufus Jones (President)
People named in this filing
- Rufus Jones (President)
- Jim Leighton (Treasurer)
- John Lynch (Secretary)
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
To provide a range of support services to Cape Cod high school graduates attending Cape Cod Community College. These services will include but not be restricted to providing scholarship funds, payment of tuition and fees as needed, other financial assistance, personal mentoring, and assistance securing services from other academic and social service programs as required. To accomplish this, ACCE will conduct various fundraising activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide a range of support services to Cape Cod high school graduates attending Cape Cod Community College. These services will include but not be restricted to providing scholarship funds, payment of tuition and fees as needed, other financial assistance, personal mentoring, and assistance securing services from other academic and social service programs as required.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.2%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.4%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.64; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 100% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 78.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.2% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.