Advance Initiative

Analysis

Advance Initiative is a registered charity in United States, based in Jenkintown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2025. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Advance Initiative reported income of $275k and spending of $240k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $97k to $275k (+184%), an average of +68% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 160%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Advance Initiative sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mission for Tribes and Nations ($275k), St Michael Cathedral Catholic Diocese of Segheneity Inc ($275k) and Greek Orthodox Memorial & Cultural Foundation of Southern California ($275k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $106k. At year end it held assets of $206k against liabilities of $10k, net assets of $196k. It reported 2 employees.