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Luis Von Ahn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEFENSORES DE LA NATURALEZA | $478,000 |
| WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC | $375,000 |
| SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| ANTIGUA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| INSTITUT PIRVADO DE INVESTIGACION SOBRE EL CAMBIO CLIMTICO (ICC) | $240,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VALLEY OF GUATEMALA | $200,000 |
| WUQU' KAWOQ SA | $180,000 |
| MAIA | $180,000 |
| LIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC | $125,000 |
| WOMEN'S JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC | $125,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FAFG INC | $120,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $110,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $100,000 |
| CREAMOS NORTE | $100,000 |
| BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC | $90,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 75% of grant dollars ($7.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 25% that went abroad ($2.6M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 25% of all-years giving ($2.6M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $644k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WIWOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +91%
- AIANTIGUA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $770k · revenue +45% · 46% of their budget
- MMAIA4× · 2021–2024 · $570k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- IPINSTITUT PIRVADO DE INVESTIGACIN SOBRE EL CAMBIO CLIMTICOone grant, 2023 · $220k
- IPINSTITUTO PRIVADO DE INVESTIGACION SOBRE EL CAMBIO CLIMATICOone grant, 2022 · $200k
- FFFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission at gracia is to economically empower young women in guatemala. economic empowerment means young women are able to earn income, become financially literate, live independently, and stand up for themselves.
To strengthen the social, educational, and economic well-being of Mayan Indigenous communities in Guatemala through programs that promote learning, health, and community empowerment.
Miracles in action empowers guatemalans living in extreme poverty to help themselves through sustainable projects that improve education, nutrition, and quality of life.
To empower pre-school and elementary school children in Guatemala by providing access to an unparalleled literacy curriculum and professional teacher training that create new opportunity pathways for the next generation.
Education for underserved women and girls in remote regions of developing countries
To improve access, quality and relevance of education for youth in rural central america.
Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.
New Dawn Guatemala is a Seattle-based grassroots organization that works to promote equitable, ecologically friendly development and educational advancement in the rural Guatemalan community of Nuevo Amanecer (New Dawn in English) and the…
We are dedicated to providing real impact for those that need it most. We aim to improve the incomes of hundreds of thousands of farming families and the nutrition of millions.
NISGUA works for real democracy in Guatemala and in the US by building mutually beneficial grassroots ties between people in the US and Guatemala
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Aid and the most unlike its peers is Pomona Impact Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTIGUA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAIA ↗
- Who funds Wuqu Kawoq SA ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Womens Justice Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FAFG INC ↗
- Who funds LIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds Creamos Norte ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VALLEY OF GUATEMALA ↗
- Who funds BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Planting Seeds International ↗
- Who funds Iniciativa Guatemala ↗
- Who funds BE JUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ↗
- Who funds CASA SITO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MESO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POMONA IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Guatemalan Tomorrow Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SHE'S THE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AID ↗
- Who funds REALGIRL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SERES GLOBAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ward Foundation Inc · The Tinker Foundation Inc · The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc · Together Women Rise · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Center for Central American Empowerment Inc · Foundation for a Better World Inc · Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc · One Days Wages · Tides Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Luis Von Ahn Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Foundation of the University of the Valley of Guatemala — 100% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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