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ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION

EIN 46-2914731 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$8,074,207
Expenses 2024
$9,195,298

Program services were 89.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
R40
Classification
3000
Street
650 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW STE 600

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION ENVISIONS A NEW ERA OF LOCALLY-LED DEMOCRACY WITH INCLUSIVE PROCESSES AND EQUITABLE OUTCOMES, WHERE LOTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ENGAGE IN DEMOCRACY AS VOTERS, ORGANIZERS, AND LEADERS, MAKING THE WORLD JUST, MORE SUSTAINABLE, AND MORE AWESOME.

Activities or mission (Part I)

AYA SUPPORTS THE WORK OF LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS, BUILDING A MOVEMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE FOR ALL PEOPLE.

  • CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR NETWORK ORGANIZATIONS, THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION DEVELOPS AND IMPLEMENTS LOCAL INTEGRATED CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND ELECTORAL PROGRAMS THAT HELP TRAIN AND DEVELOP NEW LEADERS, MOBILIZE YOUNG VOTERS, AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT KEY ISSUES IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. OUR PROGRAM ENGAGES WITH YOUNG PEOPLE YEAR-ROUND AND OVER MULTIPLE CYCLES, BUILDING HABITS THAT TRANSLATE INTO LIFELONG CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.

    Expenses $3,825,711 · Grants $2,290,000

  • VOTER EDUCATION - THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION EDUCATES YOUNG VOTERS THROUGH A VOTER CONTACT PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE CANDIDATES STAND ON THE ISSUES THEY CARE ABOUT. THE ALLIANCE SUPPORTS NETWORK ORGANIZATIONS TO PRODUCE LOCAL VOTER GUIDES AND CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRES, AND ALSO PRODUCES CONTENT AT A NATIONAL LEVEL.

    Expenses $2,310,841 · Grants $1,416,500

  • CAPACITY BUILDING - THROUGH ONGOING TRAINING AND COACHING, THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION BUILDS THE CAPACITY OF OUR LOCAL NETWORK ORGANIZATIONS. THE ALLIANCE PROVIDES DEEP CAPACITY BUILDING SUPPORT FOR 17 NETWORK ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AREAS OF OPERATIONS, FINANCE, PROGRAM, DATA, COMMUNICATIONS, AND DEVELOPMENT.

    Expenses $1,369,481 · Grants $1,038,708

  • ISSUES CAMPAIGNS

    Expenses $659,484 · Grants $651,000

  • COMMUNICATIONS

    Expenses $58,078

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JONATHAN PAIK

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIM ROGERS

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RESHA THOMAS

    SECRETARY (THRU JUNE)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BEN WESSEL

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU JUNE); SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AARON MERKIN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VICTORIA CEPEIDA-MOJARRO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TRACEY CORDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KELLIE DUPREE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUAN ESCALANTE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALISON GE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRITIHIKA HARISH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BETH HUANG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • COLLEEN LOPER

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU APRIL)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALEXANDRA ACKER LYONS

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU JUNE)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KUNOOR OJHA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAOLA RAMOS

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU JUNE)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NATALIA SALGADO

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU JUNE)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRIS SLOAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAKOTA HALL

    PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $119,269
    From this org
    $113,772
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,497
    Hours/week
    20

  • WILLIAM KOONTZ

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $48,607
    From this org
    $42,279
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,328
    Hours/week
    10

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,074,207
    Expenses
    $9,195,298
    Contributions
    $8,066,817
    Grants paid
    $5,396,208
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,041,054
    Expenses
    $1,900,680
    Contributions
    $3,040,713
    Grants paid
    $705,778
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,116,406
    Expenses
    $3,665,483
    Contributions
    $3,116,216
    Grants paid
    $1,598,250

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,804,180
    Expenses
    $1,232,151
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,994,753

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,169,308
    Expenses
    $7,551,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,330,327

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,358,243
    Expenses
    $1,015,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,822,043

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,431,274
    Expenses
    $1,270,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $368,046

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $381,369
    Expenses
    $245,134
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,174

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $97,135
    Expenses
    $102,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,199

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Matthew Singer
Mailing address
333 SE 2nd AvePortland OR 97214
Website
http://www.busfedaction.org/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.