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ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY

EIN 20-5119659 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,730,026
Expenses 2024
$2,201,323

Program services were 74.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1000
Street
704 EUCLID AVE

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

TO TRANSFORM LIVES OF UNDERSERVED YOUTH THROUGH ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT, HEALTH AND WELLNESS, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND LEADERSHIP THROUGH SQUASH. AYA USES THE SPORT OF SQUASH AS A CATALYST TO TRANSFORM THE LIVES OF UNDERSERVED YOUTH.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO TRANSFORM LIVES OF UNDERSERVED YOUTH THROUGH ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT, HEALTH AND WELLNESS, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND LEADERSHIP THROUGH SQUASH.

  • Founded in 2006, Access Youth Academy is an after-school life-skill and academic enrichment program for low-income San Diego youth aged 10-24+ designed to foster equal access to higher education, healthy lifestyle habits, and post-college graduation employment.We believe every child should have equal access to achieve their full potential.Access Youth Academys mission is to transform the lives of underserved youth through academic enrichment, health and wellness, social responsibility, critical thinking, and leadership development using the sport of squash as a catalyst.Access Youth Academy students are low-income as defined by Federal standards. Most currently come from high-need neighborhoods in Southeastern San Diego and strive to be the first in their families to attend college. Barriers to success include poverty, food insecurity, neighborhood violence, and family instability.Over 17 years, Access students have achieved a 100% high school graduation rate, a 100% college acceptance rate, secured over $10.8 Million in earned scholarships, and our student- athletes have won a total of 13 National Squash Titles. Access students have been accepted to and earned degrees from some of the nations top-rated schools including Columbia, Dartmouth, Amherst, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Trinity, Cornell, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UCSD. Access program graduates have entered careers in biotechnology, structural engineering, cognitive science, medical fields, finance, and immigration law.

    Expenses $1,649,683 · Grants $185,814 · Revenue $151,861

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.

  • RENATO PAIVA

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $255,161
    From this org
    $246,116
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,045
    Hours/week
    50 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $246,116
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $9,045
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $255,161

  • BLAIR SADLER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 4 related

  • GREG SCHERMAN

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • JOE SAMMARTINO

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 4 related

  • LYNELLE BOAMAH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT ITO

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • MARY WALSHOK

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY CHASE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN SMITH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HUGH DAVIES

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANAMICA RAI

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAY COLEMAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AMERICA SANCHEZ

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUSAN TAYLOR

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KARLA RUIZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REESE JARRETT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAY LIEBOWITZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • IAN MAXWELL

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT MERRITT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAURIE BLACK

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EDDIE WANG RODRIGUEZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FRED HERNANDEZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TOM GILMAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID GALLUCCIO

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIKE BROOKS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,730,026
    Expenses
    $2,201,323
    Contributions
    $1,458,619
    Grants paid
    $185,814
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,781,291
    Expenses
    $2,206,839
    Contributions
    $1,530,067
    Grants paid
    $200,646
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,598,627
    Expenses
    $1,764,778
    Contributions
    $1,345,699
    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
    $6,938,111
    Expenses
    $1,483,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,742,308

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,221,754
    Expenses
    $6,543,747
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,330,454

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,030,455
    Expenses
    $2,412,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,988,384

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $665,229
    Expenses
    $697,133
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,431,528

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $723,686
    Expenses
    $617,195
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,479,342

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $639,543
    Expenses
    $644,943
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,329,708

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $568,745
    Expenses
    $559,176
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,345,246

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,714,377
    Expenses
    $587,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,272,079

  • 2009 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $150,489
    Expenses
    $218,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,931

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

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Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.