Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($37). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $37
- Net assets
- $57k
What Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund does
Mission
The Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund is a social welfare organization devoted to research and educational issues of importance to seniors, retirees and their families. The araef focuses primarily on three program areas 1) research and development of written materials that deal with public policy issues that affect retirees, 2) education on public policy issues that affect retirees, 3) working with other not-for-profit organizations on issues that affect seniors, retirees, and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Field mobilization: provide training and development and grand seeking training for community leaders. Provide leadership development and coalition building among nonprofit organizations and community groups with the goal of fostering activism among retirees and seniors with the goal of impacting issues affecting seniors.
$59,577 spentof which $58,411 as grants98% of program spendingAs a member of lcao the alliance participated in the lcao meetings during the year. As a member the alliance attended meetings. Lcao is a large coalition of the nation's non-profit organizations serving the older americans. It is composed of approx 70 members organizations that are diverse and dedicated to preserving and strengthening the well-being of american's older population. The membership dues from each of these organizations helps cover the administrative costs of lcao's meeting activities. Lcao provides a voice for seniors and their families in the ongoing national debate on aging policy. Lcao fights for the well-being of amercia's older population and is committed to representing their interests in the policy-making arena. Recognizing the strength of the coalition lies in the diversity of its membership, the purpose of the lcao is to foster communication and resource sharing among its member organizations, to serve as a source of information about issues affecting older persons, and to provide leadership and vision as america meets the challenges and opportunities presented by its society
$200 spent0% of program spendingCommunications
$1,095 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,872.
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 $30k to $104k (+252%).
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.
99% of ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $22.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $350k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Energy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 EDUCATIONAL FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND
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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND: 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 RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND?
- ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($37). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $37 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS EDUCATIONAL FUND 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.
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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 1 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