Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility
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What it says it does
The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibly leads in the fight to eliminate drunk driving and underage drinking and promotes responsible decision-making regarding beverage alcohol.
- Income
- $10.4 million
- Spending
- $9.5 million
- Employees
- 21
- Volunteers
- 15
- Highest pay
- $458,881, executive director
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- $1.1 million spent. Ask, Listen, Learn is a multimedia program available in print and online for parents and middle school age kids. The program is based on research that identifies parents as the leading influence in kids' decisions not to drink. By fostering conversations between parents and kids, youth will learn about the consequences of underage drinking, how alcohol affects growing bodies and minds and how to stand up to peer pressure. Materials for parents (also available in Spanish) help parents with both what to say to their kids about alcohol and how to say it.
- $629,643 spent. Hardcore drunk drivers account for a disproportionate share of drunk driving fatalities on our roads. In an effort to achieve FAAR's mission of eliminating drunk driving, efforts are underway to reduce the fatalities caused by this group of offenders. A law school curriculum has been developed with Suffolk Law School. Judicial publications serve to assist judges in their efforts to adjudicate these complex cases, and FAAR continues to support Harvard Medical School's efforts to create and test the cars assessment tool designed to focus on the mental health issues facing nearly half of these offenders.
- $559,683 spent. Responsibility.org has formed The National Alliance to Stop Impaired Driving (NASID) to provide a strong, collaborative national focus on the growing problem of multiple substance impaired driving. NASID is a coalition dedicated to saving lives, promoting awareness, achieving DUI system reform, improving DUI detection and data, and deploying technology to fight all forms of impaired driving.
- $4.7 million spent. Alcohol 101 Plus is an innovative, interactive program which helps students make safe and responsible decisions about alcohol on college campuses. Set on a "virtual campus," Alcohol 101 Plus includes a "virtual bar, and content targeted to at-risk populations - first-year students, Greeks, student athletes, and judicial policy offenders. Alcohol 101 Plus enables educators to administer online pre- and post-surveys for students, access test results, and access downloadable educational materials including a facilitator's guide with learning objectives and recommended activities for each content section of the program.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since April 1992.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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