AAA Scholarship Foundation Inc

Quality education is a basic human right and a significant factor in the development of strong children, families and communities. Empowering economically-disadvantaged parents to choose the educational setting tailored for their child's learning needs will allow that child to thrive and will help break the intergenerational chains of poverty because education is intrinsically linked not only to an educated child but to improving, health, reducing hunger, spurring economic growth and building a strong nation.

Our two main goals are:
• to annually expand by 20 percent the number of economically-disadvantaged students served through tax credit scholarship programs in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Nevada so they can afford to attend the educational environment that best fits their learning needs;
• to expand into other states of great need that also offer a high-yielding tax-credit opportunity for donors.

• Provide quality partnership opportunities for our corporate participants;
• Educate targeted communities in the states where we serve children about the AAA scholarship opportunity;
• Uphold our commitment to exceptional customer service to each of our key stakeholders (families, corporate partners, schools);
• Provide insight to elected officials on best practices and accountability measures that must be implemented to expand these programs nationwide;
• Receive clean (“unqualified") financial audits annually.

AAA Scholarship Foundation is the only 501(c)(3) nonprofit state approved scholarship organization in the country that is approved to manage state corporate tax credit scholarship programs in four states. And many other things make us distinct. The AAA Scholarship Foundation:

• has been awarded the prestigious Guide Star Platinum Seal, demonstrating the highest level of good management practices in a non-profit organization.
• Awards scholarships directly to families – not schools.
• Awards scholarships for at least a 3-year term in states that allow multi-year commitments – we believe that the continuity of an educational setting is important for children to succeed.
• Is managed by the nation's leading state corporate tax credit scholarship program professionals with over 20 years of experience successfully administering programs.
• Has a CPA on-staff to ensure that your tax questions are answered correctly and to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Limits our overhead to 2.18 percent for administrative funding.

• Since 2010, we have grown exponentially with our first scholarship distribution of 285 scholarships to now serving 8,134 economically-disadvantaged students in four states;
• Since 2010, we have expanded our area of service from just Georgia to serving low-income students in four states (AZ, FL, GA, NV);
• Since 2010, we have received only clean (“unqualified) annual reports from independent auditors;
• Since 2010, 12 new tax credit scholarship programs have been passed into law.

While we have made significant progress towards our goals since our inception, a great need still remains. According to the 2016 Annual Grad Report by Civic Enterprises and Everyone Graduates Center at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University, only 74.6 percent of all low-income students graduated compared to 89 percent of non-low-income students. We aim to equalize that number and, with your help, we will.