Advocacy Project

Analysis

Advocacy Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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 December 2023, Advocacy Project reported income of $173k and spending of $191k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $279k to $173k (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Advocacy Project sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 27th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Plenty International ($173k), Women Forward International ($173k) and Heart for Ethiopia Inc ($172k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 5.9% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $33k (17% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $22k. At year end it held assets of $86k against liabilities of $3,558, net assets of $83k. It reported 3 employees.