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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,663 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($174,660). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$189k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$355k
Net assets
$5k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What American Friends of the New Economic School (Afnes) C/O Dr Barry W Ickes does

Mission

Foster the development of economics education in russia and advancing academic cooperation between american and russian institutions and to cooperate with other charitable organizations whether local, national, or international in furtherance of the organization's purpose.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides faculty members to teach at the new economic school and helps place graduate students from the new economic school in ph.d. Programs abroad.

    $196,447 spentof which $12,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $196,447.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($113k) Expenses 100 ($126k) Net assets 100 ($144k)2018 Revenue 119 ($135k) Expenses 105 ($132k) Net assets 102 ($146k)2019 Revenue 352 ($398k) Expenses 199 ($250k) Net assets 204 ($293k)2020 Revenue 324 ($366k) Expenses 239 ($301k) Net assets 249 ($358k)2021 Revenue 458 ($517k) Expenses 320 ($403k) Net assets 329 ($472k)2022 Revenue 199 ($225k) Expenses 431 ($543k) Net assets 132 ($190k)2023 Revenue 141 ($159k) Expenses 227 ($286k) Net assets 44 ($63k)2024 Revenue 167 ($189k) Expenses 196 ($247k) Net assets 4 ($5k)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (196)Net assets (4)Peer revenue range

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 $472k to $190k (−60%).

$144k
$146k
$293k
$358k
$472k
$190k
$63k
$5k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
$3k
’18
$147k
’19
$65k
’20
$114k
’21
−$318k
’22
−$127k
’23
−$58k
’24
0.3
months of
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed665654
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·01011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $97k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
2
2
2

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES’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 FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES.

49%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 77% — 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.

Where its funders are

98% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $349k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES has grown faster than half of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−31% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

50%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES?
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,663 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($174,660). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $354,663 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES?
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $174,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL (AFNES) C/O DR BARRY W ICKES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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