Association of Fundraising Professionals

Analysis

Association of Fundraising Professionals is a registered charity in United States, based in Livingston, NJ. 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 $130k and spending of $137k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $174k to $130k (-26%), an average of -7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 111% 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 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Texas State Genealogical Society ($130k), Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Blessed Junipero Serra Conference ($130k) and National Charity League Inc Yorba Linda Chapter ($130k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.0% and program service revenue 53% of the total. At year end it held assets of $321k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $321k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.