Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH
AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,326,317 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,010,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What America's Promise the Alliance for Youth does
Mission
America's promise alliance is an innovator in collective action and a leader at improving outcomes at scale for young people in america. The organization convenes the ceos and leadership teams of leading nonprofits working in k12 education, postsecondary to workforce pathways, and civic health in a community designed to meet the urgent and interrelated challenges facing young people. This community both builds the capacity of leading nonprofits to increase their impact and evolve their models, and identifies and launches new collective action initiatives focused on challenges that are too large for any one organization to address on its own.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Alliance community programming- america's promise alliance builds the capacity of leading youth-serving nonprofits to improve their outcomes and evolve their models. Member organizations enroll their ceo and up to five senior leaders in the alliance community, where they participate in leadership cohorts, capacity-building programming, knowledge sharing across organizations, and the opportunity to design national research. Programming is built around the improvement priorities member organizations identify themselves, and addresses both the individual needs of each organization and the challenges most common across the membership. The average member organization spends 80-100 hours annually in alliance programming. Outcomes data show that 78% of member organizations are more effective because of their participation;75% made strategic evolutions to their models; 54% increased their outcomes, 47% expanded their reach;and 73% of participating executives are more effective leaders.
$2,219,346 spent$702,687 earned by the program31% of program spendingAlliance growth & partner cities- as we continue to grow our alliance, this hybrid, local-national network is designed to support a more aligned and coordinated nonprofit community, while specifically creating greater connectivity, collaboration, and collective action opportunities for local and more proximate youth-supporting organizations within each city. Local and more proximate organizations have historically had more limited access than national organizations to the types of support needed to organize and scale their impact. Leadership development, capacity building, and other supports are expensive, and in many cases, those supports are offered exclusively by large national foundations to their grantees. Our partner city strategy exists to meet this need, and by advancing the development of local organizations and their leaders we can simultaneously accelerate the development of the field at large. America's promise has launched two partner cities: atlanta and denver.
$1,701,208 spent24% of program spendingCollective action initiatives- each year, america's promise alliance engages its member community in a structured process to identify, develop, and launch new multi-organization collaborations, including idea generation, expert review, initiative design, fundraising, and ongoing stewardship. These initiatives address field and system-level challenges that no single organization can solve alone. The alliance has launched four collective action initiatives to date. The institute for youth mental health helps direct service nonprofits build rigorous mental health strategies into their existing models, better equipping them to identify, triage, and refer participants to high-quality care, reaching more than one million students. The higher education innovation alliance establishes a common partnership model between colleges and the nonprofits supporting persistence and completion on their campuses. The outcomes transparency for nondegree pathways initiative creates citywide databases of verified wage and employment data so students and families can make informed decisions about which programs to attend. The teacher certification program creates a flexible, cost-effective pathway for…
$1,606,354 spentof which $217,500 as grants22% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,656,657 spentof which $10,150 as grants23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,183,565.
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 2021 to 2022, from $8.3M to $23M (+181%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Michael O'Brien
CEO
Board chair
C Gregg Petersmeyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 14 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $9.2M.
15 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
65% 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 AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 32% · 2019 25% · 2020 33% · 2021 21% · 2022 28% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
21% of AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
56% of AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH'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 $11M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH's revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH: 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 AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH?
- AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,326,317 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,010,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $24,326,317 in grants to AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $8,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH 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 71 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