Association of Fundraising Professionals

Analysis

Association of Fundraising Professionals is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1987, 39 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Association of Fundraising Professionals reported income of $723k and spending of $641k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $913k to $723k (-21%), an average of -5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 157%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Association of Fundraising Professionals sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include CPC Foundation Inc ($723k), Trustees of Merrill Memorial Library ($723k) and Methouse Inc ($723k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.6% and program service revenue 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $507k against liabilities of $38k, net assets of $469k.