Alliance Forum Foundation

Analysis

Alliance Forum Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1995, 31 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Alliance Forum Foundation reported income of $200k and spending of $103k, leaving 49% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $539k to $200k (-63%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 134%. Over the whole period it spent 31% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Alliance Forum Foundation sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kucetekela Foundation ($200k), Yatima Group Fund ($200k) and Walk Strong Foundation ($200k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $12.9m against liabilities of $327k, net assets of $12.6m.