Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC
ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,457,715 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($16,839,150). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Alliance for Decision Educationinc does
Mission
The mission of the alliance for decision education is to improve lives by empowering students with essential skills and dispositions for making better decisions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education programs - fellowship: the decision education teacher fellowship brings together middle and high school teachers nationwide to learn and apply decision education in their classrooms. Teacher fellows contribute to the growth of decision education through ongoing learning, collaboration, and advocating for teaching applied decision-making skills. They join a community of educators eager to explore decision education, champion its integration in schools, and contribute to studying its impact on students. Incubator: the decision education incubator provides a unique learning opportunity for schools interested in piloting decision education across at least one grade level. Over the course of 18 months, the alliance supports school teams in designing and implementing sustainable and scalable instructional models with high potential for student impact. Forecasting: the student forecasting tournament is an exciting, gamified learning opportunity for students to practice forecasting about real-life events and improve their decision-making skills. Throughout the tournament, students submit their own forecasts on various questions about current, real-world events.
$1,737,270 spentof which $304,489 as grants38% of program spendingThe alliance acts as a field builder (and catalyst) to align organizations and individuals working together to establish and integrate decision education into the k-12 systems of all 50 states. We are building a movement of partners including k-12 educators, education leaders, parents, funders, business leaders, researchers, advocacy organizations, and policymakers, at the school, district, state, and national levels.
$1,071,549 spent24% of program spendingResearch programs - research collaborative:the decision education research collaborative brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers with a shared interest in decision education to discuss research findings, share knowledge and resources, and generate new insights about decision- making in childhood and adolescence. Research grants: the decision education research grants and awards program was established to support future and existing research on decision education, and is the latest step in establishing a robust evidence base and enhancing the overall understanding of the field. The graduate student scholarship program is a component of the larger de research grants and awards initiative. Through the graduate student scholarship award, the alliance seeks to seed the field with future decision education researchers and develop an engaged researcher community. The alliance for decision education aims to support graduate students (masters or doctoral level) interested in the field of decision education. Graduate student authors of winning papers that demonstrated insight and innovation in the field of decision education received a 1500 scholarship award.
$506,731 spent11% of program spendingAll other program services not reflected in the above
$1,234,105 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,549,655.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $15M (+637%).
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.
94% of ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $315k → $10M.
9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 DECISION EDUCATIONINC’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
ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 DECISION EDUCATIONINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 51% · 2019 88% · 2020 62% · 2021 58% · 2022 75% · 2023 67% — 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
44% of ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
71% of ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 DECISION EDUCATIONINC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 203 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 203 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC?
- ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,457,715 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($16,839,150). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $38,457,715 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $16,839,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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