THE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

S40

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 335

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• SCALABLE SMALL BUSINESS COACHING TAP'S SCALABLE PROGRAMMING DELIVERS TARGETED EXPERTISE ACROSS THE SMALL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM TO BROAD AUDIENCES THROUGH VARYING FORMATS - WEBINARS, WORKSHOPS, SMALL-GROUP COACHING, AND ONE-ON-ONE ADVISORY SESSIONS - ALL AT NO COST TO SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS. PROPRIETARY SMALL BUSINESS COACHING CONTENT IS DEVELOPED BY TAP AND DELIVERED BY EXPERIENCED, PRO-BONO BUSINESS CONSULTANTS, COVERING TOPICS INCLUDING FINANCE, MARKETING, OPERATIONS, AND STRATEGY. SINCE 2012, TAP HAS REACHED OVER 100,000 INDIVIDUALS THROUGH ONLINE RESOURCES AND HAS GROWN ITS VOLUNTEER CONSULTANT NETWORK TO OVER 200 PROFESSIONALS, WHO COLLECTIVELY SPEAK OVER 20 LANGUAGES, AND HAVE DONATED OVER 70,500 CONSULTING HOURS SINCE TAP'S INCEPTION.

  Expenses $1,262,658 · Revenue $204,532

• STRATEGIC & CUSTOMIZED ADVISORY SERVICES TAP'S STRATEGIC & CUSTOMIZED ADVISORY SERVICES ARE DESIGNED TO ADDRESS ACUTE SMALL BUSINESS CHALLENGES AND FILL ECOSYSTEM-LEVEL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GAPS. OFTEN DEPLOYED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS OR FUNDERS, THESE ENGAGEMENTS RANGE FROM FOCUSED WORKSHOPS, TO A SERIES OF ONE-ON-ONE ADVISORY SESSIONS, TO A MULTI-WEEK DEEP DIVE PROGRAM, OR A COMBINATION THEREIN. THE DEEP DIVE IS TAP'S FLAGSHIP PROGRAM THAT PAIRS SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS WITH A TEAM OF ADVISORS OVER A 12-WEEK PERIOD. THE PROGRAM INCLUDES TAILORED ACTION PLANS, BUSINESS TOOLS, AND STRUCTURED FOLLOW-UP. THE DEEP DIVE IS TAP'S HIGHEST-IMPACT INTERVENTION - PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES HAVE YIELDED A 94% BUSINESS SURVIVAL RATE, 86% GROWN OR SUSTAINED REVENUES, AND 91% GROWN OR SUSTAINED EMPLOYEE BASES, WITHIN 12-MONTHS POST-PROGRAM.

  Expenses $251,171 · Revenue $17,000

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $2,727,645

  Expenses

  $2,480,851

  Contributions

  $2,355,736

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,221,431

  Expenses

  $1,738,744

  Contributions

  $1,445,641

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,068,944

  Expenses

  $1,183,377

  Contributions

  $1,237,148

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,236,597

  Expenses

  $797,751

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,525,654

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $869,758

  Expenses

  $528,347

  Assets (EOY)

  $861,656

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $647,340

  Expenses

  $398,097

  Assets (EOY)

  $521,784

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $244,235

  Expenses

  $196,278

  Assets (EOY)

  $322,937

• 2017 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $151,811

  Expenses

  $43,536

  Assets (EOY)

  $213,337

• 2016 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $51,572

  Expenses

  $8,045

  Assets (EOY)

  $111,182

• 2015 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $40,960

  Expenses

  $7,901

  Assets (EOY)

  $67,655

• 2014 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $32,578

  Expenses

  $10,826

  Assets (EOY)

  $34,596

• 2013 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $19,100

  Expenses

  $6,256

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,844

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $250,000

  2022 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $161,000

  2024 · RELIGION

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $110,000

  2024 · Community Development

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $100,000

  2022 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $100,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $69,550

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $69,200

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $65,500

  2022 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $55,500

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $44,150

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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