Washington · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION
ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,650,239 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($717,350). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $-149254
What Alliance for Gun Responsibility Foundation does
Mission
The alliance for gun responsibility works to save lives and eliminate the harms caused by gun violence in every community through advocacy, education, and partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The alliance for gun responsibility foundaton engaged in outreach and public education with the goal of reducing gun violence. This included summits that hosted subject matter experts from across the county and professionals and partners throughout washington state. Additonally we worked on policy development with local national parters. We partner with state and local goverment and partner stakeholders to pursue implementation of the myriad laws we have passed. We participated in dozens of partner-led events including safe storage giveaways. Our community engagement efforts continue to prioritize youth and underserved communities.
$1,597,525 spent97% of program spendingThe Alliance for Gun Responsibility Foundation continues to support the legal defense efforts for the laws that we pass that are challenged in court.
$41,719 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,639,244.
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 2017 to 2018, from $663k to $242k (−64%).
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: 2023 21% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION’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. 5 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
Renee Hopkins
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $130k → $1.1M.
18 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 24% · 2019 29% · 2020 24% · 2021 20% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% — 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
58% of ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
77% of ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION's revenue grew 48% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Department of Justice$300k
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 GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Alliance for Gun Responsibility · exempt
- Agr Victory Fund PAC · exempt
- Alliance for Gun Responsibility Federal Victory Fund · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION: 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 GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION?
- ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,650,239 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($717,350). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $4,650,239 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $717,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 43 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