Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,325,107 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,378,126). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 170
- Grants received
- $86M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Alliance for Youth Organizing does
Mission
The Alliance for Youth Organizing is advancing a new era of democracy that is locally led and publicly engaged. We envision a society where young voters come out to the polls in numbers that actually shape the public discourse, and electoral system that encourages rather than discourages all people to be active and engaged participants. We do this by building the capacity of and providing resources to our network of independent affiliate organizations as well as stronger oversight of and training for affiliate financial management.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Civic engagement - in partnership with our network organizations, the Alliance for Youth Organizing develops and implements local, integrated civic engagement programs that help train and develop new leaders, register and 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.
$12,141,622 spentof which $9,772,501 as grants52% of program spendingCapacity building - through ongoing training and coaching, the Alliance for Youth Organizing 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.
$6,891,295 spentof which $5,488,313 as grants30% of program spendingFiscal sponsors - the Alliance for Youth Organizing supports local civic engagement programs that help train and develop new leaders, register and mobilize young voters, and educate young people on more than 40 college campuses about key issues in their communities through 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsorship of three state-based projects, based in florida & texas.
$3,282,633 spent$194,491 earned by the program14% of program spendingIssues campaigns
$905,462 spentof which $826,824 as grants4% of program spendingCommunications
$116,175 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,337,187.
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 2023 to 2024, from $21M to $8.7M (−58%).
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.
98% of ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% 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
Dakota Hall
President & executive director
Board chair
Whitney Porter
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $883k → $14M.
44 of 170 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 YOUTH ORGANIZING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 170 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 YOUTH ORGANIZING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
53% 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 ORGANIZING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 20% · 2019 34% · 2020 9% · 2021 17% · 2022 12% · 2023 18% — 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
36% of ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 YOUTH ORGANIZING draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 ORGANIZING is better cushioned than half of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 23 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: 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 ORGANIZING?
- ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,325,107 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,378,126). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING have?
- IRS filings report 170 organizations giving $86,325,107 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,378,126 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING 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 170 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