New York · Nonprofit
Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc
Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,883,924 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,584,527). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc does
Mission
Put legal and organizing tools in the hands of threatened West African communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community-driven Development - support communities that are resisting destructive investment projects through community-driven development visioning, legal strategies, and technical support.
$505,160 spent33% of program spendingPublic Interest Lawyering Initiative - regional movement of lawyers driven by social justice to serve threatened communities.
$505,159 spent33% of program spendingCase-based Legal Support - directly intervene to represent West African communities facing serious threats to their human rights, natural environment, or land and livlihoods.
$505,159 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,515,478.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $860k to $2.3M (+173%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jonathan Kaufman
Executive Director, Secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $75k → $682k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 38% · 2020 61% · 2021 50% · 2022 28% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
83% of Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $510k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 174 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc?
- Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,883,924 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,584,527). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,883,924 in grants to Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,584,527 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing