Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,424 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($630,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $822k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What American Council of Young Political Leaders does
Mission
Acypl's mission is to design and conduct bilateral and multilateral international educational exchanges designed to promote mutual understanding, respect, and friendship and to cultivate long-lasting relationships among tomorrow's global political and policy leaders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Department of state exchanges: acypl conducts international exchanges, 8-14 days, and international professional exchanges, 4-6 weeks, enabling emerging leaders (aged 25-40) to experience firsthand the political, policy making and cultural dynamics of host countries. The exchanges are conducted in partnership with acypl's program partner organizations around the world.
$1,810,645 spent91% of program spendingAlumni programs: acypl conducts programs throughout the year to provide alumni with opportunities to enhance their leadership skills, further their involvement in international affairs and public diplomacy, network with other alumni and interact with national and international decision makers.
$93,548 spent5% of program spendingOther exchanges: these exchanges are funded by private, non-governmental entities. In 2025, these expenses are related to 2 exchange programs funded in whole or in part by the el pomar foundation and u.s.-mexico foundation.
$82,216 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,986,409.
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 $1.2M to $2.4M (+97%).
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 77% · 2018 82% · 2019 80% · 2020 71% · 2021 68% · 2022 75% · 2023 78% · 2024 78% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS’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. 1 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
Elizabeth Rosenbaum
CEO
Board chair
Joseph Jones
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $66k → $121k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS’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
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 83% · 2019 82% · 2020 53% · 2021 88% · 2022 91% · 2023 83% — 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
25% of AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
81% of AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS'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 $154k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $668k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS is better cushioned than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.6M on record.
- Department of State$14.6M
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 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS: 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 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS?
- AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,424 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($630,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $822,424 in grants to AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $630,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS 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 17 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