- Revenue 2024
- $58,900
- Expenses 2024
- $432,752
Program services were 62.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B82
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 402 W BROADWAY FL 20
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 EMPOWER LEARNERS TO ACROSS THE U.S. TO SECURE QUALITY-FIRST JOBS BY OBTAINING CRITICAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND TRAINING ALONG THE CONTINUUM OF THEIR JOURNEY'S - THUS DRIVING DURABLE ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS.
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THE ORGANIZATION IS FOCUSED ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONTINUING EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY. IT BELIEVES THERE IS NO HIGHER PURPOSE THAN THE PURSUIT OF EDUCATION AND THAT THIS PURSUIT SHOULD BE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERY PERSON REGARDLESS OF THE CHALLENGES THEY MAY FACE. THE ORGANIZATION WORKS TO UNDERSTAND, MEASURE, AND ACTIVELY IMPROVE TANGIBLE OUTCOMES BEYOND COMPLETION OF A PROGRAM OR DEGREE SO THAT EVERYONE CAN SHARE MORE EQUITABLY IN THAT SUCCESS. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL LOAN PROGRAMS AND COUNSELING ON FINANCIAL AND DEBT FORGIVENESS.
Expenses $269,151 · Grants $16,358
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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KENNETH RUGGIERO
CEO / BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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KIM FOLSOM
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MICHAEL KARTALIJA BELCH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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RYAN GRAY
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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TRISTAN FLEMING
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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TOCHI IZEGBU
COO
- Total calculated
- $279,832
- From this org
- $279,832
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $257,842
- Bonus
- $21,859
- Other
- $131
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $279,832
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $58,900
- Expenses
- $432,752
- Contributions
- $75,000
- Grants paid
- $16,358
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2023
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $6,143
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $10,000
- Expenses
- $96,257
- Contributions
- $10,000
- Grants paid
- $10,000
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
- $175,000
- Expenses
- $16,682
- Assets (EOY)
- $973,807
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020
- Tax period
- 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
- Principal officer
- Ken Ruggiero
- Mailing address
- 402 W Broadway Fl 20San Diego CA 92101
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
Grants made
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$12,500
2024 TO FUND THE ASCENT RIIPEN PILOT PROGRAM
Grants received
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2023 The grant is to support borrower engagement as part of the Goal Beyond Debt Forgiveness Initiative. This will include issuing letters to over 6,000 borrowers, cross-referencing and validating their personal details in the Goal Beyond database, managing their on-boarding to the AscentUp training program, and supporting them with credit repair resources to improve their economic mobility.
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 as related by
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On its 2024 return
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return
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GOAL BEYOND MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
C · INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT · DE · 100% owned · share of income $19,132 · share of assets $383,301 · controlled entity
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.