Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,896,694 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($13,100,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Black Economic Alliance Foundation does
Mission
The organization focuses on advancing economic progress in black communities by supporting research, education, and public policy development around work, wages, and wealth in the black community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foundation worked to support research, education, and public policy development around work, wages, and wealth in the black community.
$4,511,688 spentof which $677,267 as grants60% of program spendingCenter for black entrepreneurship - the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, spelman college, and morehouse college have partnered to develop the center for black entrepreneurship (cbe), the first-ever academic center of its kind to produce, train, and support a new classof black entrepreneurial talent.the cbe seeks to eliminate the access barrier between black entrepreneurs, professional investors, and business builders by leveraging education, mentorship, access to capital, and opportunity.
$2,971,713 spentof which $1,670,000 as grants40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,483,401.
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 $16M to $29M (+84%).
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.
97% of BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Samantha Tweedy
Chief executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $4.2M.
12 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 59% · 2022 40% · 2023 52% — 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
36% of BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M 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
BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Black Economic Alliance Fund · exempt
- Black Economic Alliance PAC · exempt
- Black Economic Alliance · exempt
- Black Economic Alliance Ventures LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION?
- BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,896,694 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($13,100,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $34,896,694 in grants to BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 37 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