Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,055,556 to it, the largest being UNITED STEEL PAPER AND FORESTRY RUBBER MANUFACTURING ENERGY ALLIED ($617,589). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Alliance for Retired Americans does
Mission
The alliance's mission is to promote the social welfare of the people of the united states, the creation and maintenance of a strong and effective organization to represent the needs, views and interests of older and retired workers, and to generate lifelong opportunities for active citizenship, education, and awareness.the alliance pursues this mission by providing opportunities for advocacy, research, education, and mobilization on the wide range of issues that affect the lives of older and retired workers, such as, but not limited to, affordable and comprehensive medical care, adequate retirement and income security, meaningful employment, and affordable and adequate housing. The alliance strives to ensure that these issues remain prominent in the formulation and implementation of national policy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy advocacy (government and political affairs): the alliance researches, analyzes, tracks, advises and educates its members and members of congress on federal legislative and policy matters affecting older americans and retirees, including social security, medicare, medicaid, pensions and high prescription drug prices. The alliance also assists the state alliances with research and analyze state and local legislative and regulatory issues that affect older americans. Each year the alliance issues a congressional voting record which scores 10 u.s. House and senate votes on issues affecting retirees and seniors. The alliance also creates fact sheets and position papers on policy issues affecting older americans.
$3,401,377 spent71% of program spendingGrass roots mobilization (field mobilization): the alliance's field team focus on grassroots education and mobilization by developing organizational leaders and structures and by chartering new state alliances to be a part of the national alliance network. The field team also supports the existing 40 state alliances, their volunteer officers, boards and members by providing staff, fundraising support, and guidance. They develop and disseminate program and informational material on issues of importance to retirees and seniors. The field team provides support to alliance members as they advocate for legislation and policies that will strengthen retirement security, promote the well-being of older americans, and protect the earned benefit programs.
$797,056 spentof which $74,720 as grants17% of program spendingPublic outreach (communications): the alliance's communications team develops materials and educational content for its members, the medica and the public at large to raise awareness and build support for policies the protect and strengthen retirement security. The alliance conducts outreach to members of the media, allied organizations, and its members through weekly newsletters, its website and social media platforms.
$599,850 spentof which $2,000 as grants13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,798,283.
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 $10M to $11M (+10%).
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.
92% of ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Richard J Fiesta
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $266k → $133k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.2M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations). These are real filings, and they are not money ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS raised.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS’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 RETIRED AMERICANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 RETIRED AMERICANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 50% · 2019 43% · 2020 46% · 2021 51% · 2022 45% · 2023 49% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 RETIRED AMERICANS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 26 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund · exempt
- Alliance for Retired Americans Political Action Fund · exempt
- Retired Americans PAC · exempt
- Retired Democrats Fund · exempt
- Retired Democrats 2026 · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS?
- ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,055,556 to it, the largest being UNITED STEEL PAPER AND FORESTRY RUBBER MANUFACTURING ENERGY ALLIED ($617,589). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,055,556 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS?
- UNITED STEEL PAPER AND FORESTRY RUBBER MANUFACTURING ENERGY ALLIED is the largest funder on record, with $617,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 13 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