California · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,564,465 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,834,200). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Alliance for a Better Community does
Mission
Advancing social, economic, racial equity and justice for the latino / a community and the los angeles region through power building and policy advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Fuerza fund fuerza fund, an abc initiative, directs flexible capital to organizations and to families navigating urgent crises in los angeles. The fund operates from three pillars: response: rapid resources for families navigating urgent crises; recovery: sustained investment to stabilize families, strengthen coalitions, and rebuild community infrastructure; and resilience: long-term support for organizations to grow capacity, build leadership, and exercise civic power. In fy24-25, fuerza fund focused on recovery in the wake of the los angeles wildfires, prioritizing essential workers and uniquely impacted households. Civic engagement integrated voter engagement abc continued its integrated voter engagement (ive) strategy under the sela votes! Initiative to increase latina/o voter participation across southeast los angeles region long defined as a civic desert with low, declining, or stagnant turnout despite a latina/o-majority population. Yes on measures dd & ll abc was a key partner in the successful effort to pass measures dd and ll, which established independent redistricting commissions for the city of los angeles and the los angeles unified school district, respectively. Abc led phone banking efforts to build community understanding and support for both measures. Both measures passed with approximately 75% voter approval, collecting nearly 1.9 million combined votes in favor. The passage of measures dd and ll advances abc's long-standing advocacy through the our la…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Education: multilingual learner successnow in its eighth year, abc continues to co-chair the consortium for multilingual learner success, advancing a values-based policy agenda to improve educational outcomes for english learners and multilingual learners (mlls) in los angeles. Since its inception, the consortium has coordinated data, research, community engagement, organizing, and communications efforts to ensure linguistically diverse students have access to a high-quality public education.abc also developed a narrative shift workgroup aimed at changing the messaging to an asset-based approach of multilingualism. Additionally, abc leads the consortium's grassroots organizing workgroup (grow), which centers community voices in shaping the consortium's local and statewide strategic direction. Over the past year, grow prioritized advocacy for increased mental health support for multilingual learners across school districts and advanced narrative change work to position multilingualism as a community asset.in fy24-25, the consortium completed a comprehensive policy agenda update building on its 2020 framework. The process included a consortium-wide convening, advisory committee…
$850,722 spentof which $270,000 as grants36% of program spendingFuerza fundfuerza fund, an abc initiative, directs flexible capital to organizations and to families navigating urgent crises in los angeles. The fund operates from three pillars: response: rapid resources for families navigating urgent crises; recovery: sustained investment to stabilize families, strengthen coalitions, and rebuild community infrastructure; and resilience: long-term support for organizations to grow capacity, build leadership, and exercise civic power.in fy24-25, fuerza fund focused on recovery in the wake of the los angeles wildfires, prioritizing essential workers and uniquely impacted households.
$724,311 spentof which $380,000 as grants31% of program spendingVoter outreachabc continued its integrated voter engagement (ive) strategy under the sela votes! Initiative to increase latina/o voter participation across southeast los angeles region long defined as a civic desert with low, declining, or stagnant turnout despite a latina/o-majority population.
$235,218 spentof which $37,000 as grants10% of program spendingLatino/a scorecard research and community engagementin fy24-25, abc delivered multiple public policy wins and advanced various policy at the state and local levels stemming from recommendations included in the abc 2021 latino/a scorecard report: a policy roadmap for transforming los angeles, which answered a series of critical questions about the opportunities and challenges facing latina/os in los angeles county and established a grade/score in five different focus areas. The scorecard report uplifted the assets that latina/os bring to the county as well as highlights opportunity gaps that have acted as barriers that prevent latina/o communities from fully thriving. The scorecard culminated into a report with secondary research analyses and public policy recommendations - informed by issue experts and the community - across various areas. These recommendations are being moved forward in advocacy, organizing, power building and communications efforts across specific areas.closing the digital divideabc has continued leading efforts to highlight the extreme inequities that exist in the southeast los angeles (sela) county region with regards to the digital divide. During the…
$530,761 spentof which $5,000 as grants$750 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,341,012.
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 $1.2M to $2.0M (+62%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 10% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Vanessa Aramayo
CEO/ president
Board chair
Audrey Dow
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $327k → $1.8M.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 61% · 2019 37% · 2020 30% · 2021 26% · 2022 65% · 2023 41% — 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
45% of ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
51% of ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.7M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: 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 ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY?
- ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,564,465 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,834,200). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $9,564,465 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,834,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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