Association of Fundraising Professionals

Analysis

Association of Fundraising Professionals is a registered charity in United States, based in Oxford, MI. 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 $251k and spending of $243k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $132k to $251k (+91%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 87% 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 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friday Harbor Food Bank ($251k), Nami Valley of the Sun ($251k) and Blair County Historical Society ($251k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 6.5% of the total. At year end it held assets of $264k against liabilities of $17k, net assets of $248k.