- Revenue 2024
- $343,179
- Expenses 2024
- $336,310
Program services were 93.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 1702 DANCING FOX RD
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 · 2024
Mission
IDEAS exists to help resource poor people around the world get the tools and skills to build secure and sustainable futures for themselves, their families and their communities. We provide teaching, training, technical asst, social enterprise and innovative techniques.
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IDEAS continues to work in Mexico with immigrants from 12 Latin American countries. We worked with only those who immigrate legally into Mexico that has become a destination country for about 200,000 per year. We continued our work of helping small entrepreneurs to gain economic inclusion in MX. We assisted them in achieving financial inclusion by linking them with micro-finance institutions, banks and credit unions. Many of our participants increased their sales and were able to generate income for their families needs. We assisted the financial institutions to change the ways their present their information to attract immigrants. Some lenders are non-profit and all are lending to provide greater socioeconomic impact(that IDEAS evaluates)
Expenses $95,641 · Revenue $120,113
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IDEAS has preferred to assist women in their businesses so that they can better support their families. Immigrants to MX need to grow their income as quickly as possible. Many of the women microentrepreneurs choose to run food businesses. Other women we assist provide design and printing, health and ophthalmology services, laundries, bakeries, teaching and tutoring after school. Most women start with home-based businesses and move to stores as they grow. Two-thirds of the participants in our courses are women. Important parts of our entrepreneurial education are to learn the MX regulations and to operate more profitably. We work with many non-profit allies that provide therapy, health, and legal services. We document our participants activities and successes. regulations and to operate profitably. At first, some of the women need services from our allies such as therapy, health, and legal services. IDEAS is helping to overcome the bias that excludes women from full development. The women who are entrepreneurs in their original countries typically can grow their businesses quickly. We also assist those who were not businesswomen before. Some who were para-professionals are able to adapt more quickly.
Expenses $131,161 · Revenue $133,839
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IDEAS assists young people to achieve their economic and financial goals and overcome exclusion that they often face. We developed manuals for entrepreneurial challenges that all our participants face. We find the younger participants often have different perspectives and needs. We have been asked by educational institutions to train and guide them in volunteer programs. We have been working in recent years with families who are receiving remittances that benefit youth and others. We are assisting them to learn how to manage their funds more wisely to make good investments with their income. This helps to be able to increase their families resources by savings and to provide funds to grow their businesses. Many allies have recruited more participants of youth in other parts of the country. In MX, we began developing work with a business incubator that trains youth to create their first businesses. Some of the youth already had begun assisting in challenges that all our participants face. There is substantial shortfall in the household needs of their families so there is a need to make sure that the businesses could bring home income as well as to sustain their businesses.
Expenses $87,411 · Grants $38,875 · Revenue $89,227
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Carter Garber
Exec Dir and Board Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 35
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Robert Zdenek
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Miguel Mairena
VP Latin America
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Stephanie Atli
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Adriana Gaffga
Treasurer & Asst Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.25
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Juan Gomez
VP Mexico
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $343,179
- Expenses
- $336,310
- Contributions
- $343,179
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $179,925
- Expenses
- $201,530
- Contributions
- $3,868
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2022
- Revenue
- $155,709
- Expenses
- $155,312
- Contributions
- $68,709
- Grants paid
- not reported
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $270,430
- Expenses
- $266,306
- Assets (EOY)
- $136,348
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $202,309
- Expenses
- $196,061
- Assets (EOY)
- $167,224
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $257,657
- Expenses
- $242,005
- Assets (EOY)
- $160,945
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
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2024 ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.