Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$26,590,690

Total expenses

$23,542,727

Contributions and grants received

$25,143,486

Grants paid

$9,825,318

Program service revenue

$1,190,619

Investment income

$54,760

Other revenue

$201,825

Total assets, end of year

$21,698,180

Total liabilities, end of year

$2,362,450

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$19,335,730

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$20,153,861

Management and general expenses

$1,899,416

Fundraising expenses

$1,489,450

Program service expenses (Part III)

$20,153,861

Program services were 85.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Digital, Media, Product, and Publications: In collaboration with Alpha International USA IP, LLC. ('AIUSA'), we launched a new Alpha product: The Alpha Youth Series ('AYS 3.0') in November 2024. - We invested in product globalization and contextualization, which enabled a coordinated global release of AYS 3.0 with eight subtitled languages, and more translations due to be released in 2025 and beyond. - Pre-production for the next Alpha Film Series ('AFS 2.0') re-commenced. - 2024 was the first full year of the newly branded 'Bible with Nicky and Pippa Gumbel' ('BNAP'); there has been continued engagement with the content on the BNAP app and the web page. - A global guest stories campaign was launched, profiling transformational stories from around the world. Many NAOs have used this global campaign, with local adaptations. - Significant digital advances have been made both with a successful pilot of the new Alpha App and further investment into the 'Theory of Change' project, which will allow the organization to become more data driven. In 2024, the global marketing team launched a brand-new guest campaign to tell the stories of lives changed by Jesus, through Alpha, to the world. The campaign tells 'real stories of real people who were curious about faith, bringing to life eleven stories from all around the world.

  Expenses $8,825,577 · Grants $5,823,571 · Revenue $113,899

• International Development: - Over the past year, Alpha International has completed two months of prayer globally, where the global organization (i.e., Alpha International and the network of NAOs) has joined together in corporate prayer under the banner of 'fan the flame'. - In 2024, 2,166,715 participants attended an Alpha Course. 81,629 courses were run from 43,117 churches, organizations, and individuals, across 146 countries. - In 2024, we concluded the pilot stage of our long-term initiative to measure the effectiveness of the Alpha course, receiving responses from over 1,500 guests across nearly 20 countries. The results were very encouraging. From our target population - people who have not yet discovered or developed a relationship with Jesus - 86% of guests report growth in their engagement in faith during the Alpha course, and over half of these guests describe themselves as positively engaged with the beliefs, practices, and experiences of the Christian faith by the end of the course.

  Expenses $4,546,445 · Grants $2,945,424

• Strategic Leadership and Enablement: Within the context of our overall vision, we launched Alpha's 2033 vision to our staff team, donors, and churches. Alpha International's vision is for everyone, everywhere to have the opportunity to explore faith through Alpha by 2033. As we look forward to the 2000th anniversary of the resurrection, we hope to make exploring faith in Jesus as accessible as possible, so that millions more might encounter the love of God. The CEF team continue to support and share learnings with regions and national offices, so they are equipped and innovating in their contexts to serve the church well in the context of our 2033 global vision. In 2024, the Global Governance team facilitated the Country Governance Requirements review of National Alpha Offices in which NAO leadership and boards conducted self-assessments of the effectiveness of NAO governance, with support from regional leadership.

  Expenses $2,673,393 · Grants $1,005,485

• Conferences: Alpha International hosted the Leadership Conference 2024 ('LC24') at the Royal Albert Hall, with many joining from around the world and many participating online through LC On Demand. During the week of LC24, we hosted an event called 'The Open Generation' for strategic church leaders and youth leaders from across the world.

  Expenses $2,019,225 · Revenue $1,190,619

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $1,388,566 · Grants $1,551

• Alpha Context Development: 2024 was another amazing year for Alpha Youth as it continued to grow all around the world. In 2024, there were over 29,000 Alpha Youth courses, with over 744,000 guests, a 10% growth from 2023. On top of this encouraging growth, we were thrilled to launch the new Alpha Youth Series on 14th November in 8 languages. Together with regional and national teams, we were successfully able to host 37 different launch events all over the world, in places such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Stockholm, London, and Amsterdam. This was a monumental achievement that has taken years of work by our global team in collaboration with regional and national teams and has already been received so positively by local churches all over the world. In 2024, over 6,300 churches, schools and organizations and over 325,000 participants explored faith, life and meaning through Alpha in the Catholic Context. This represented a growth of 21% in Churches, organizations and schools and a growth of 15% in guests. Catholic churches represented 19% of engaged churches globally. Catholic context courses run in a Youth or Young Adult context represented 47% of the total number, which is above the global average of 37%, highlighting the opportunity and impact of Alpha Youth in the Catholic Context in engaging the emerging generations.

  Expenses $555,432 · Grants $49,287

• Other Ministries: The Marriage Course (TMC) and The Pre-Marriage Course (TPMC) have impacted millions of couples positively worldwide. In 2024, our focus was on improving digital accessibility, supporting church leader marriages, exploring evangelistic opportunities for TPMC, and enhancing marketing and content.

  Expenses $145,223

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• Alpha International USA

  $3,000,832

  Project Expenses

• Alpha USA

  $153,168

  Project Expenses

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

13 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202543179349304964

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