Virginia · Nonprofit
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL (Virginia) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,565,674 to it, the largest being The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc ($2,850,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 133
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What American Legislative Exchange Council does
Mission
The American Legislative Exchange Council (alec) is a forum for stakeholders to exchange ideas and develop potential solutions. Alec's mission is to advance and promote the jeffersonian principles of limited government, free markets and federalism.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Task forces - alec's policy task forces provide a forum for legislators and the private sector to discuss issues, develop policies, and draft model policy which serves as a public resource. The task forces include the following: american city council exchange; civil justice; commerce, insurance and economic development; communications and technology; criminal justice; education and workforce development; energy, environment and agriculture; health and human services; federalism and international relations; tax and fiscal policy; and homeland security. Each tax force is co-chaired by a public and private sector member of alec.
$3,365,998 spent41% of program spendingConferences - alec holds national conferences, providing workshops on current issues with leading experts, public figures and elected officials. The two national conferences held in 2024 and 2023 were the annual meeting and states and national policy summit meeting.
$2,317,862 spent$1,267,156 earned by the program28% of program spendingState outreach - alec's state outreach program provides reimbursement for qualifying costs, principally travel and lodging, of state legislators to attend various conferences and meetings of alec. Through this program, alec also works to promote the development of legislative membership and participation in alec. This program also encompasses alec's state equity alliance work which includes voter education initiatives.
$1,203,421 spent15% of program spendingPublic affairs - alec conducts an on-going communications program that integrates all departments of alec to promote policies based on free-market, limited government and federalism among elected officials and the private sector members. Public affairs also educates the general public on alec's institutional goals and objectives.
$689,101 spent8% of program spendingMembership - membership manages the programs for the recruitment and retention of alec state legislator members. This includes liaison with the alec state chairs and private sector state chairs. In addition, membership provides assistance to alec state chairs in ensuring that members of alec's leadership are operating in accordance with alec's policies and procedures.
$658,319 spent$97,003 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,234,701.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $8.9M to $14M (+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.
87% of AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Senate President Ty Masterson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $4.1M.
15 of 133 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 133 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
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
50% 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 LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 20% · 2019 32% · 2020 20% · 2021 24% · 2022 18% · 2023 14% — 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
41% of AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL is better cushioned than half of the 270 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 270 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jeffersonian Project · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL?
- AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL (Virginia) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,565,674 to it, the largest being The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc ($2,850,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 133 organizations giving $21,565,674 in grants to AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL?
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds American Legislative Exchange Council →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 133 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