New York · Nonprofit
ALI FORNEY CENTER INC
ALI FORNEY CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 311 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,473,144 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,327,638). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 311
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Ali Forney Center Inc does
Mission
Ali Forney Centers mission is to protect LGBTQ youth from the harm of homelessness and to support them in becoming safe and independent as they move from adolescence to adulthood.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Drop-in Center and Vocational Skills: This program was started in response to lack of needed expanded clinical and supportive services to unsheltered LGBTQ youth. The program introduces homeless LGBTQ youth to a safe, supportive environment where prevention and treatments services are offered.
$8,886,299 spent47% of program spendingTransitional Housing Programs: This program allows homeless LGBTQ youth to reside in transitional housing program for up to two years while the Organization assists them in gaining employment and continuing their education. The Organization also provides assistance to gain financial stability.
$5,782,992 spent31% of program spendingEmergency Housing Program: The program consists of different sites that provides temporary housing for homeless LGBTQ youth in safe, nurturing and staff-supervised apartments.
$4,215,475 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,884,766.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $22M to $32M (+49%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 76% · 2019 65% · 2020 55% · 2021 55% · 2022 42% · 2023 61% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of ALI FORNEY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Alexander Roque
President and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 124 funders, grant income rose $770k → $4.7M.
42 of 311 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 ALI FORNEY CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 311 funders by total. 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
ALI FORNEY CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALI FORNEY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 19% · 2019 14% · 2020 21% · 2021 16% · 2022 24% · 2023 17% — 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
39% of ALI FORNEY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
50% of ALI FORNEY CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
ALI FORNEY CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 818 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 818 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ALI FORNEY CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$10.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.4M
- Department of Justice$375k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALI FORNEY CENTER 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 337 Convent HDFC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC?
- ALI FORNEY CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 311 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,473,144 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,327,638). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALI FORNEY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 311 organizations giving $31,473,144 in grants to ALI FORNEY CENTER INC, 161 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALI FORNEY CENTER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,327,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALI FORNEY CENTER 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 311 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing