Young People's Alliance

Overview

Mission

Empowering young people to shape the future through advocacy and organizing.

What it reported doing in 2025

Advocate for bipartisan policies to reclaim the American Dream for young people, focusing on opportunity, affordability, and community, including how technology shapes each. Advocacy includes direct lobbying, grassroots mobilization through campus phone banks and constituent advocacy campaigns, student lobby days, and coalition building. Accomplishments: Mobilized grassroots opposition to the AI moratorium provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, generating 310+ constituent calls to Congressional offices and organizing a DC Lobby Day in which members directly lobbied 100+ Congressional offices. Drove 5 targeted state legislators to sign onto a multi-state legislator letter opposing federal AI preemption. Advocated for state-level AI accountability legislation including California AB 1064 and the New York RAISE Act, and engaged state legislative efforts on AI policy in Michigan and other targeted states. Advocated for state legislators to introduce legislation on AI companions for the 2026 session. Built and mobilized a bipartisan grassroots base of 1,800 young people across 53 campuses in 6 states to advocate on housing affordability, economic opportunity (including apprenticeship expansion and occupational licensing reform), and accountability for attention-based technology platforms.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873604545
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Headquarters
Raleigh, NC, USA
Phone
8282919166
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 9
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 35.4%; rating input score 35
  • Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: $242.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 64.2%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.43; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 68.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -32.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 77% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 35.4% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $104K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Ava Smithing (Advocacy Director): $75,400 total reported compensation
  • Alexandre Dray (Director of Field Operations): $57,250 total reported compensation
  • Samuel Hiner (Executive Director): $57,153 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.