GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Afterschool Alliance

Washington, DC · EIN 52-2275123. Reported 64 grants totalling $1,193,000 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

29organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$1,193,000granted, 2021-2024
61%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Afterschool Alliance, the IRS classifies it under youth development rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE O99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 61% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $70,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
50 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Virginia Partnership for Out-of-School TimeRichmond, VA$180,000442024
Board of the University of AlabamaTuscaloosa, AL$103,000332023
Nebraska Children and Families FoundationLincoln, NE$80,000222024
Voices for Alabamas ChildrenMontgomery, AL$80,000222024
Metropolitan Family ServicesMerrionette Park, IL$60,000442024
Texas Partnership for Out of School TimeAustin, TX$60,000332024
Voices for Georgias Children IncAtlanta, GA$60,000442024
Vermont Afterschool IncSouth Burlington, VT$55,000442024
Jannus IncBoise, ID$50,000222024
New York State Network for Youth Success IncTroy, NY$50,000442024
West Virginia Univ Foundation IncMorgantown, WV$50,000222024
School Services of MontanaBozeman, MT$45,000332024
Central Susquehanna Intermediate UnitMilton, PA$40,000442024
New Mexico Out-of-School Time NetworkAlbuquerque, NM$40,000222024
Public School Forum of North Carolina IncCary, NC$40,000322022
The Curators of the University of MoColumbia, MO$30,000222022
Center of Southwest Culture IncAlbuquerque, NM$25,000222022
EmbeSioux Falls, SD$25,000222023
South Carolina Afterschool AllianceColumbia, SC$20,000222022
Access Health ColumbusColumbus, OH$10,000112021
Black Hill Special Services CooperativeSturgis, SD$10,000112024
National League of CitiesWashington, DC$10,000112023
Oklahoma Public School Resource Center IncOklahoma City, OK$10,000112022
Operation Shoestring IncJackson, MS$10,000112021
Providence After School AllianceincProvidence, RI$10,000112021
Schools Out WashingtonTukwila, WA$10,000112022
United Way of TennesseeFranklin, TN$10,000112021
University of Southern Maine FoundationPortland, ME$10,000112022
Utah Afterschool NetworkSalt Lake Cty, UT$10,000112021

19 of 29 (66%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
9 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
International Affairs
1 org
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202119$210,000$10,000
202215$260,000$10,000
202316$408,000$20,000
202414$315,000$20,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

15% of its giving went to organizations in Alabama. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Alabama
$183K
Virginia
$180K
Nebraska
$80K
New Mexico
$65K
Illinois
$60K
Texas
$60K
Georgia
$60K
Vermont
$55K

Down to the city

Richmond, VA
$180K
Tuscaloosa, AL
$103K
Lincoln, NE
$80K
Montgomery, AL
$80K
Albuquerque, NM
$65K
Merrionette Park, IL
$60K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust5 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation4 shared recipientsWk Kellogg Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Alabama.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Afterschool Alliance's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1101 14TH Street Nw 700, Washington, DC, 20005.

EIN 52-2275123 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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