· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CREAMOS NORTE | $100,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $100,000 |
| BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC | $90,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 25% of all-years giving ($2.6M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against -19% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Luis Von Ahn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Luis Von Ahn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Foundation of the University of the Valley of Guatemala: 100% of income from government
How this is measured
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