Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PA Alliance Foundation
PA Alliance Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,290,846 to it, the largest being PROGRESS NOW EDUCATION ($4,788,400). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What PA Alliance Foundation does
Mission
PA Alliance Foundation ("paaf") is a 501(c)(3) public charity that is focused on civic engagement and democracy advancement across pennsylvania, working to expand access to the ballot through non-partisan voter education and mobilization. The organization's objective is to unite civic-minded pennsylvania institutions around aligned civic engagement objectives, and facilitates their investments to leverage national resources into pennsylvania to execute collective plans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Voter engagement: voter engagement programming to engage and turnout pennsylvania voters, especially those who are historically disadvantaged.
$3,770,316 spentof which $2,696,146 as grants62% of program spendingVoter registration: voter registration programming to expand democracy and the electorate to better reflect the demographically changing population across pennsylvania by registering pennsylvanians to vote across the commonwealth.
$449,291 spentof which $232,464 as grants7% of program spendingVoter education: voter education programming to inform voters of their voting options across pennsylvania and fight back against disinformation.
$1,866,592 spentof which $1,768,297 as grants31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,086,199.
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 2022 to 2023, from $507k to $1.3M (+166%).
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 PA Alliance Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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
Jennifer Rafanan Kennedy
Executive director
Board chair
Matt Barron
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 21 funders, grant income fell $8.4M → $2.1M.
22 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PA Alliance Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of PA Alliance Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
PA Alliance Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
73% 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 PA Alliance Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 23% · 2022 24% · 2023 15% — 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
38% of PA Alliance Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
PA Alliance Foundation draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.7M 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
PA Alliance Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PA Alliance Foundation: 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 PA Alliance Foundation?
- PA Alliance Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,290,846 to it, the largest being PROGRESS NOW EDUCATION ($4,788,400). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PA Alliance Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $23,290,846 in grants to PA Alliance Foundation, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PA Alliance Foundation?
- PROGRESS NOW EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,788,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PA Alliance Foundation 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.
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 61 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