Virginia · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $190,000 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($190,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $-232539
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $190k
- Net assets
- $0
What Institute for Alternative Futures does
Mission
To help communities and organizations better understand their future and more wisely choose and create their preferred future.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Programs and workshops to educate others about future alternatives in areas of communication, education, health, transportation, environment, government foresight, architecture, pharmaceuticals, and demographics.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $583k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES’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.
Where its funders are
INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$8k
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 INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alternative Futures Associates · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES: 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 INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES?
- INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $190,000 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($190,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $190,000 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 1 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