Connecticut · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC
ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,981,364 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ($1,034,776). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc does
Mission
Alliance's sole mandate is to assist under-resourced individuals and communities. Alliance concentrates its efforts and resources on identifying and eliminating the causes of poverty rather than only dealing with its effects. Alliance's actions are directed towards promoting appropriate institutional change and empowering individuals to become self-sufficient contributors to society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education services- including federal head start programs, served 539 children; school readiness program, served 84 children; child day care program served 69 children. A total of 692 households were served with education services.
$13,661,901 spent$1,270,550 earned by the program57% of program spendingState and federal health & welfare program services - including emergency energy assistance, served 25,445 individuals, comprising 11,284 households; and provided families with family counseling programs.
$9,636,432 spentof which $6,955,578 as grants40% of program spendingHousing services - including federal energy assistance program, served 9,894 households.
$664,596 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,962,929.
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 2020 to 2021, from $8.7M to $16M (+87%).
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 91% · 2018 91% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 2023 88% · 2024 89% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Monette Ferguson
Executive director
Board chair
Lamond Daniels
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $100k → $253k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 55% · 2021 38% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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
25% of ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
97% of ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $413k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $244.7M on record — $113.9M federal, $130.8M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$112.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$950k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$97.6M
- Educational Services$19.4M
- State Aid Grants$10.7M
- Other Program Expenses$3.2M
- Client Services-General$8k
- Board & Care Of Clients$5k
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 ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT 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 ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC?
- ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,981,364 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ($1,034,776). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,981,364 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC?
- CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,034,776 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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