Alliance for Retired Americans
The alliance's mission is to promote the social welfare of the people of the united states, the creation and maintenance of a strong and effective organization to represent the needs, views and interests of older and retired workers, and to generate lifelong opportunities for active citizenship, education, and awareness.the alliance pursues this mission by providing opportunities for advocacy, research, education, and mobilization on the wide range of issues that affect the lives of older and retired workers, such as, but not limited to, affordable and comprehensive medical care, adequate retirement and income security, meaningful employment, and affordable and adequate housing. The alliance strives to ensure that these issues remain prominent in the formulation and implementation of national policy.
Alliance for Retired Americans at a glance
In short: Alliance for Retired Americans gave $31K across 1 grant in 2025 (avg $31K), mostly in Pennsylvania. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $31,420
- -23.4% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 1
- -66.7% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $31,420
- +129.9% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $31,420
- Total assets
- $11,966,614
- -0.9% vs 2024
- Primary geography
- Pennsylvania (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
Who Alliance for Retired Americans funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top recipient in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Pennsylvania Alliance for Retired Americans ($31K).
Grant Size Distribution
13 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 13 grants of 13 (100%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
Grant Distribution by State
Share of the 2025 grant dollars on its one itemized grant.
Cities
How Alliance for Retired Americans gives
- Giving fell 68% from 2022 to 2025. Method
From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $31K (2025) to $106K (2020). In 2025 it made 1 grant totaling $31K.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Alliance for Retired Americans Cordorus, PA | General Support | $31,420 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $11,966,614 | $8,577,134 | $7,919,784 | $31,420 | 1 | $337,676 |
| 2024 | $12,071,509 | $8,033,234 | $8,201,804 | $41,000 | 3 | $325,996 |
| 2023 | $11,843,885 | $6,586,817 | $6,461,233 | $61,000 | 2 | $167,416 |
| 2022 | $10,887,989 | $6,701,286 | $7,149,857 | $97,000 | 3 | $73,991 |
| 2021 | $11,474,428 | $7,560,389 | $6,274,127 | $62,500 | 4 | $59,809 |
| 2020 | $10,395,271 | $7,727,123 | $7,109,837 | $105,833 | 6 | $93,077 |
| 2019 | $9,522,205 | $6,643,731 | $6,145,393 | $60,600 | 3 | $117,948 |
About Alliance for Retired Americans
Based on IRS filings
Alliance for Retired Americans is a public charity focused on Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, based in Washington, DC. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $12.0M in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 1 grant totaling $31K. Net investment income was $338K.
Focus Areas
Leadership & Key People
Officers and directors from IRS filings
Alliance for Retired Americans is led by Richard J. Fiesta, Executive Director on every filing since 2019; 5 of 48 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Richard J. Fiesta
Executive Director
On filings since 2019
39 hrs/week
$168K (2019) → $175K (2025)
Robert Roach Jr.
President
On filings since 2019
20 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Juan Johnson
Information Technology Director
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$107K (2019) → $109K (2025)
Lisa K. Cutler
Communications Director
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$133K (2019) → $138K (2025)
Suzanne Peeler
Director of Finance & Administrator
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$113K (2024) → $141K (2025)
David Simon
Legislative Representative
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$101K (2025)
Ann Widger
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Doris Crouse-Mays
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Hene Kelly
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jean Dobashi
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jim Centner
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jody Weinreich
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Joseph Boffa
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Joseph Peters Jr.
Secretary-Treasurer
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Joslyn N. Williams
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Julie Horwin
Executive Vice President
Executive Board → Executive Vice President, 2022
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Julie Stein
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ken Goodfriend
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Lee Saunders
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Marc Perrone
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Maria C. Cordone
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Nancy Olumekor
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Randi Weingarten
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ray Kramer
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Roger Boudreau
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Steve Kofahl
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Tom Murphy
Executive Board
On filings since 2019
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Everett Kelley
Executive Board
On filings since 2020
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Fred Redmond
Executive Vice President
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Carol Rosenblatt
Executive Board
On filings since 2022
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Carolyn Boller
Executive Board
On filings since 2022
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kirk Gillenwaters
Executive Board
On filings since 2022
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Mike Louis
Executive Board
On filings since 2022
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Richard Long
Executive Board
On filings since 2022
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sheila Lieder
Executive Board
On filings since 2022
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Steve Barger
Executive Board
On filings since 2022
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Tony Padilla
Executive Board
On filings since 2022
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Wendy Boszak
Executive Board
On filings since 2022
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
David McCall
Executive Board
On filings since 2023
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Matthew Clark
Executive Board
On filings since 2023
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Nolan Harrison
Executive Board
On filings since 2023
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Paul Noble
Executive Board
On filings since 2023
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Shawn Fain
Executive Board
On filings since 2023
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Brian Bryant
Executive Board
On filings since 2024
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jason Anderson
Executive Board
On filings since 2024
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Robert Porto
Executive Board
On filings since 2024
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Bob Gilmore
Executive Board
New on the 2025 filing
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Laquita Honeysucker
Executive Board
New on the 2025 filing
0.2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (45)
- Former: Edgar Romney (2019–2024) — Executive Board
- Former: Monica Silbas (2023–2024) — Executive Board
- Former: Demaurice Smith (2019–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Edward Manhart (2019–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Gail Dietrich (2019–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Harry Kaiser (2019–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Kenneth M. Cooper (2019–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Robert Martinez Jr. (2019–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Tarn Goelling (2019–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Thomas Conway (2019–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Ray Curry (2021–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Tim Bressler (2021–2023) — Executive Board
- Former: Michael Scott Kestner (2022–2023) — Director of Development
- Former: Donald Brown (2019–2022) — Executive Board
- Former: Doug Hart (2019–2022) — Executive Board
- Former: James Jim Rivers (2019–2022) — Executive Board
- Former: Jo Etta Brown (2019–2022) — Executive Vice President
- Former: Paul Schuh (2019–2022) — Executive Board
- Former: Sherry Dennis (2019–2022) — Executive Board
- Former: Susan Flashman (2019–2022) — Executive Board
- Former: Tim Foley (2019–2022) — Executive Board
- Former: David Blank (2022) — Deputy Communications Director
- Former: Maureen Dunn (2022) — Director of Field Mobilization
- Former: Elizabeth Shuler (2019–2021) — Executive Vice President
- Former: Lori Pelletier (2019–2021) — Executive Board
- Former: Melvin Coleman (2019–2021) — Executive Board
- Former: Rory Gamble (2019–2021) — Executive Board
- Former: Jimmie Williams (2020–2021) — Executive Board
- Former: Carolyn J. Williams (2019–2020) — Executive Board
- Former: Mike Stone (2019–2020) — Executive Board
- Former: Robin Williams (2019–2020) — Executive Board
- Former: Joetta Brown (2020) — Executive Vice President
- Former: Dennis Williams (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Gary Jones (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Gary Tavormina (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: J. David Cox (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: John Jensen (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Ken Pease Jr. (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Kitty Kennedy (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Larry Malone (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Leo W. Gerard (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Mack Goodman (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Michael Thomas Kelly (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Petee Talley (2019) — Executive Board
- Former: Roosevelt Broadnax (2019) — Executive Board
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $175K, to Richard J Fiesta (Executive Director). 5 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Alliance for Retired Americans
How much does Alliance for Retired Americans give each year?
Alliance for Retired Americans gave $31K across 1 grant in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $41K across 3 grants.
How large is Alliance for Retired Americans?
Alliance for Retired Americans reported $12.0M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $8.6M.
What is Alliance for Retired Americans?
Alliance for Retired Americans is a public charity focused on Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, based in Washington, DC. It holds $12.0M in total assets as of 2025.
Where does Alliance for Retired Americans operate?
Alliance for Retired Americans has awarded grants in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin.
What is Alliance for Retired Americans's EIN?
Alliance for Retired Americans's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 52-2277805. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.
Data update history
(3)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS May 14, 2020)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 6, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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