Alliance for Early Success

Analysis

Alliance for Early Success is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Alliance for Early Success reported income of $13.3m and spending of $13.6m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income grew from $10.6m to $13.3m (+26%), an average of +4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Alliance for Early Success sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include PHS Cambridge LLC ($13.2m), Plummer Youth Promise Inc ($13.3m) and Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging ($13.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.3m (9.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $106k. At year end it held assets of $26.8m against liabilities of $221k, net assets of $26.6m. It reported 9 employees.