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ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC

ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,080,540 to it, the largest being YOUTHBUILD USA INC ($580,470). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.2M
Revenue FY2025
19
Funders on record
$3.1M
Grants received
$390k
Net assets
9/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%

Against its field

ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($164k)2021 Revenue 151 ($1.8M) Expenses 157 ($1.6M) Net assets 191 ($313k)2022 Revenue 212 ($2.5M) Expenses 233 ($2.4M) Net assets 252 ($413k)2023 Revenue 288 ($3.5M) Expenses 334 ($3.5M) Net assets 188 ($308k)2024 Revenue 436 ($5.2M) Expenses 474 ($5.0M) Net assets 405 ($664k)2025 Revenue 518 ($6.2M) Expenses 620 ($6.5M) Net assets 238 ($390k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (518)Expenses (620)Net assets (238)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 49% · 2021 64% · 2022 64% · 2023 65% · 2024 75% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$153k
20
$170k
21
$100k
22
$41k
23
$264k
24
$275k
25
0.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $126k → $838k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)6% 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 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC.

19%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 63% · 2021 70% · 2022 48% · 2023 42%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

57% of ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

79% of ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
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23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.

Federal$4.3M
grants $4.3Mcontracts $0
19
22
24
Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$4.3M

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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Governance

13
board members
92%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

CA

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC?
ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,080,540 to it, the largest being YOUTHBUILD USA INC ($580,470). 9 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 $3,080,540 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC?
YOUTHBUILD USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $580,470 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 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing