Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,845,250 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($3,200,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Alliance for Youth Action does
Mission
The Alliance for Youth Action envisions a new era of locally-led democracy with inclusive processes and equitable outcomes, where lots of young people engage in democracy as voters, organizers, and leaders, making the world just, more sustainable, and more awesome.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Civic engagement - in partnership with our network organizations, the Alliance for Youth Action develops and implements local integrated civic engagement and electoral programs that help train and develop new leaders, mobilize young voters, and educate young people about key issues in their communities. Our program engages with young people year-round and over multiple cycles, building habits that translate into lifelong civic engagement.
$3,825,711 spentof which $2,290,000 as grants47% of program spendingVoter education - the Alliance for Youth Action educates young voters through a voter contact program that provides information about where candidates stand on the issues they care about. The alliance supports network organizations to produce local voter guides and candidate questionnaires, and also produces content at a national level.
$2,310,841 spentof which $1,416,500 as grants28% of program spendingCapacity building - through ongoing training and coaching, the Alliance for Youth Action builds the capacity of our local network organizations. The alliance provides deep capacity building support for 17 network organizations in the areas of operations, finance, program, data, communications, and development.
$1,369,481 spentof which $1,038,708 as grants17% of program spendingIssues campaigns
$659,484 spentof which $651,000 as grants8% of program spendingCommunications
$58,078 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,223,595.
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 2018 to 2019, from $368k to $1.8M (+395%).
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.
100% of ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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
Dakota Hall
President & executive director
Board chair
Jonathan Paik
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $876k → $1.6M.
5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $250k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alliance for Youth Organizing). These are real filings, and they are not money ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION raised.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION’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 YOUTH ACTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
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 YOUTH ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 86% · 2019 59% · 2020 49% · 2021 32% · 2022 22% · 2023 31% — 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
40% of ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
53% of ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M 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 YOUTH ACTION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION: 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 YOUTH ACTION?
- ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,845,250 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($3,200,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $17,845,250 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION?
- SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing