New York · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY
ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,515,867 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($564,039). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $-42380920
What Alliance University does
Mission
Alliance University, a christian & missionary alliance educational institution, through its undergraduate, graduate and seminary programs, pursues its historical mission of preparing men & women to "take the whole gospel to the whole world."
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In march 2023, the university was placed on "show cause" by its accreditor, middle states commission on higher education ("msche"). The university prepared a substantial response to the request to show cause and presented its case on june 21, 2023. On june 26, 2023, msche took an adverse action against the unversity and revoked its accreditation, effective december 31, 2023. In response, the university chose not to appeal and the board of trustees, on june 29, 2023 voted to cease all academic operations, with the exception of the puerto rico campus, effective august 31, 2023.the university voluntarily surrendered its accreditation as of august 31, 2023. In response, msche accelerated its action to august 31, 2023 as well.in response, the united states departement of education placed the university on heightened cash monitoring 2 and issued a close-out request docuement.in "ceasing all academic operations" it is important to note that the board of trustees did not vote to close the university. It is the intention of the board to retain its 501(c)(3) status and to defend its charter from revocation by the new york state board of regents. It is also the intention of the university to maintain its accreditation from the association of theological schools (ats).in allowing the puerto rico campus to continue operations, even as an un-accredited institution, the plan is to support the puerto rico campus for the fall 2023 semester. In this time, the leadership of the campus with…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Education of 1,995 students at campuses located in lower manhattan, new york, and an extension site located in puerto rico, plus online programs.
$26,830,288 spentof which $11,935,026 as grants$27,438,948 earned by the program58% of program spendingStudent services and auxiliary enterprises
$16,457,020 spent36% of program spendingAcademic support
$2,837,566 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,124,874.
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 $80M to $65M (−19%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Rev Scott G Slocum
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $237k → $572k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 UNIVERSITY’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 UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 29% · 2019 34% · 2020 49% · 2021 24% · 2022 32% · 2023 35% — 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
43% of ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
58% of ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 UNIVERSITY's revenue fell 21% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,812 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2023
Government funding ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.4M on record.
- Department of Education$14.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$93k
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 UNIVERSITY
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Nyack 2 Washington LLC · disregarded
- Christian & Missionary Alliance · exempt
- Orchard Alliance · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY: 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 UNIVERSITY?
- ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,515,867 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($564,039). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,515,867 in grants to ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $564,039 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 25 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