Alpha

Legal name: Alpha International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
981430259
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2020
Location
London, UK
Phone
2070520200
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,590,690
Expenses
$23,542,727
Assets
$21,698,180
Liabilities
$2,362,450

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

25 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Miss Tricia Neill (President)
  • Mr Miles Toulmin (Interim Chief Executive Officer)
  • Mr Nick Perryman (Chief Executive Officer (part year))
  • Mr Paul Davie (EMENA Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Mr Roger Mawle (Chief Digital Officer): $211,829 total reported compensation
  • Miss Tricia Neill (President): $186,991 total reported compensation
  • Mr Nick Perryman (Chief Executive Officer (part year)): $165,255 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Alpha equips churches to create spaces where people can explore the basics of the Christian faith together through free talks, tools, and training. Since 1990, we’ve been helping churches invite people to explore the Christian faith together. We provide talks, tools, and training (for free) that help people around the world connect with their local communities – so they can share the good news in a good way. Red circle with black Japanese characters, indicating the Japanese flag. Featured. Most Alpha courses are run by churches around the world. Our goal is to support the global church with free resources, tools, and training that help them create spaces where people can explore faith and discover Jesus for themselves. 28 May 2019 Create.

What it reported doing in 2024

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.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 51% for direct work, and 49% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $16.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.5%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 47.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 42.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 76.2% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $20.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $212K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 25 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.