Design Forward Alliance

Analysis

Design Forward Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in San Diego, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, Design Forward Alliance reported income of $312k and spending of $339k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $553k to $312k (-44%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Design Forward Alliance sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 65th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Port St Lucie Botanical Gardens ($311k), Richardson Center Corporation ($312k) and Junior League of Greater Lakeland Inc ($311k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $62k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $62k. It reported 1 employees.