GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

America's Promise the Alliance for Youth

Washington, DC · EIN 54-1848713. Reported 22 grants totalling $773,000 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

22organizations funded
$26,000median reported grant
$773,000granted, 2021-2024
6%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 America's Promise the Alliance for Youth, 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. 22 distinct organizations, with 6% 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.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $26,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $20,000 and the largest $50,000. 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
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 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
10000 DegreesSan Rafael, CA$50,000112024
Beyond 12 Education IncOakland, CA$50,000112024
College PossibleSaint Paul, MN$50,000112024
College Summit IncWashington, DC$50,000112024
Imentor IncorporatedNew York, NY$50,000112024
Lets Get Ready IncNew York, NY$50,000112024
National College Advising Corps IncRaleigh, NC$50,000112024
One Million DegreesChicago, IL$50,000112024
OnegoalChicago, IL$50,000112024
The Bottom Line IncJamaica Plain, MA$50,000112024
Childrens Institute IncRochester, NY$26,000112021
KNOW2Gaffney, SC$26,000112021
Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness IncStaten Island, NY$26,000112021
Alive and Well CommunitiesSt Louis, MI$25,000112021
Managed Access to Child Health IncJacksonville, FL$25,000112021
United Way of Central New MexicoAlbuquerque, NM$25,000112021
Central Georgia Technical College Foundation IncMacon, GA$20,000112021
Greater Stark County Urban LeagueincCanton, OH$20,000112021
Kalamazoo Youth Development NetworkKalamazoo, MI$20,000112021
Rural Schools Innovation ZonePremont, TX$20,000112021
The Pittsburgh Promise FoundationPittsburgh, PA$20,000112021
Tri-County Cradle-to-Career CollaborativeN Charleston, SC$20,000112021

0 of 22 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 6 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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 20 of 22 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
Youth Development
4 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Mental Health
1 org
Human Services
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202112$273,000$22,500
202410$500,000$50,000

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

20% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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.

New York
$152K
California
$100K
Illinois
$100K
Minnesota
$50K
District of Columbia
$50K
North Carolina
$50K
Massachusetts
$50K
South Carolina
$46K

Down to the city

New York, NY
$100K
Chicago, IL
$100K
San Rafael, CA
$50K
Oakland, CA
$50K
Saint Paul, MN
$50K
Washington, DC
$50K

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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 Fund13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc10 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 $26,000 -- 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 New York.
  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 America's Promise the Alliance for Youth'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 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 10 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: 1110 Vermont Avenue Nw 900, Washington, DC, 20005.

EIN 54-1848713 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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