New York · Nonprofit
MODEL ALLIANCE INC
MODEL ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,775 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($280,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $736k
- Net assets
- $318k
What Model Alliance Inc does
Mission
Through strategic research, policy initiatives, and campaigns, the model alliance aims to promote fair treatment, equal opportunity, and more sustainable practices in the fashion industry, from the runway to the factory floor.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through our secure support line, the model alliance assisted 272 people who work or aspire to work in the fashion industry with a range of concerns, including exploitative contracts, wage theft, and sexual abuse. When appropriate, we connected individuals with trusted journalists to help them tell their stories and made referrals to attorneys to explore their legal options. We championed and implemented the new york state fashion workers act, our signature legislation, held awareness-raising events and published an in-depth explainer to help models understand their newfound rights and how to exercise them. At eight speaking engagements, from a convening at the united nations to a panel conversation at the ford foundation, we educated our community and the general public about our efforts to create a fairer and more accountable fashion industry. We conducted research examining the impact of artificial intelligence on fashion workers in partnership with the worker institute at cornell university and data & society, and raised awareness for our community's concerns about the growing use of ai-generated models in major media outlets, including the new york times, business of fashion,…
$179,648 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $179,648.
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 $116k to $282k (+142%).
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.
100% of MODEL ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Sara Ziff
Executive director
Board chair
Audrey Winn
Board member, chair (as of 1/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $75k → $227k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 MODEL ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
MODEL ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 MODEL ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 66% — 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
76% of MODEL ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MODEL ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MODEL ALLIANCE INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MODEL ALLIANCE INC: 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 MODEL ALLIANCE INC?
- MODEL ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,775 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($280,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MODEL ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $735,775 in grants to MODEL ALLIANCE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MODEL ALLIANCE INC?
- NEO Philanthropy Inc is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MODEL ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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