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The Ahla Foundation

The foundation's mission is to help people build careers that improve their lives, and strengthen the lodging industry.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$303k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Employment$1.2MYouth Development$566kHuman Services$468kEducation$419kInternational$307kCommunity Improvement$236kSocial Science$205kEnvironment$135kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $1,393,792 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,655,214 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,261,422 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $381k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $710k
  • $250k+1 grant · $303k
$35,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDSAFE CENTER$302,600
RESTORE NYC$150,000
REBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE$150,000
NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE$100,000
3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION$100,000
EMPOWERED NETWORK$100,000
BUSINESSES ENDING SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING$60,000
SAFE HOUSE PROJECT$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$48,299
SKILLPOINT ALLIANCE$40,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$36,893
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$35,000
SOLEDAD ENRICHMENT ACTION INC$35,000
ENTRENOUS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES INC$25,000
LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ANITA MAY ROSENSTEIN C$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CITYSQUARE: $60k → 14%EMPOWERED NETWORK: $100k → 9%STREET GRACE: $10k → 9%BUSINESSES ENDING SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING: $75k → 9%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $13k → 19%BUSINESSES ENDING SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING: $60k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $35k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $38k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 13 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
28

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+27%

Still filing today

92%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $746k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $503k · revenue +43%
  • EC
    Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $198k · revenue +280%
  • SH
    SAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • NR
    National Restaurant Association
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +20%
  • NR
    NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION SOLUTIONS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $195k
  • TE
    TOURISM ECONOMICS LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $155k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
The Foundation United

The Foundation United actively confronts the issue of sex trafficking through education, outreach and awarness programs designed to prevent sex trafficking and exploitation. It also supports intervention and safe housing programs for…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

The mission of the organization is to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls worldwide. it promotes the human rights of women and girls by working internationally to combat commercial sexual exploitation in all its…

International
5
Prevention Now Inc

Prevention now leverages data and technology to stop human trafficking before it starts.

Human Services
6
National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance

The National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance is a network of service providers committed to enhancing services and increasing access to care for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

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7
Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment
8
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan Inc

Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

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9
Sanctuary for Families Inc

New york's leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking and related forms of gender violence. (see schedule o for detail)

Human Services
10
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
11
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
12
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadersup and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDomestic Violence Crisis Se…At-Risk Youth MentoringFood Pantries & AssistanceUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Native Hawaiian Community D…Lgbtq+ Community CentersChild and Family ServicesEducation Equity LeadershipFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public University Foundatio…Land Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,504

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 61 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

National Restaurant Association — $200,000 · OtherNational Restaurant AssociationNATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION SOLUTIONS LLC — $194,616 · OtherNATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION SOLUTIONS …TOURISM ECONOMICS LLC — $155,000 · OtherTOURISM ECONOMICS LLCLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $75,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $72,500 · OtherSTR INC — $67,500 · OtherBW RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP — $56,000 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $135,000 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $100,000 · OtherNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE+22 more — $486,498 · Other+22 moreUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $502,600 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BA…Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc — $198,131 · EducationEntrenous Community Empow…YEAR UP INC — $101,425 · EducationYEAR UP INCUniversity of South Carolina Development Foundation — $56,177 · EducationUniversity of South Carol…+3 more — $63,577 · Education+3 moreRESTORE NYC INC — $275,000 · Human ServicesRESTORE NYC INCBusinesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking — $135,000 · Human ServicesBusinesses Ending S…EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK — $100,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER HER NETWORK…COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC — $62,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE WASH…CITYSQUARE — $60,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARECOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $35,000 · Human Services+3 more — $32,500 · Human ServicesREBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE — $150,000 · InternationalECPAT-USA INC — $147,400 · International+1 more — $10,000 · International3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EmploymentDAVIS MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES — $75,000 · EmploymentSkillpoint Alliance — $40,000 · EmploymentJobs for America's Graduates Inc — $15,000 · EmploymentLEADERSUP — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementGrand Avenue Economic Community Dev — $25,000 · Community ImprovementFoundation of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International — $15,000 · Community ImprovementSTRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $8,335 · Community Improvement
Other$1,542,114Education$921,910Human Services$700,000International$307,400Employment$230,000Youth Development$210,000Community Improvement$198,335

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $502,600 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRESTORE NYC INC — $275,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNational Restaurant Association — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEntrenous Community Empowerment Inc — $198,131 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetREBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE — $150,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetLEADERSUP — $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC — $150,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetECPAT-USA INC — $147,400 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetBusinesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking — $135,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $101,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK — $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budget3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $72,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC — $62,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCITYSQUARE — $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Development Foundation — $56,177 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSkillpoint Alliance — $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOLEDAD ENRICHMENT ACTION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY — $35,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGrand Avenue Economic Community Dev — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreater New Orleans Housing Alliance — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $22,577 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVENTS INDUSTRY COUNCIL — $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCastell Project Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International — $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetJobs for America's Graduates Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStreet Grace Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLOWBEND FARMS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFAIR GIRLS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOAP PROJECT SAVE OUR ADOLESCENTS FROM PROSTITUTION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWellspring Living Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE146 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $8,335 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Annie E Casey Foundat…Truist Foundation IncThe Jensen Project IncVenable Foundation IncNovo FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Baltimore Community F…Weingart FoundationThe Greater New Orlea…Conrad N Hilton Found…WK Kellogg FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…
Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Jensen Project Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · Novo Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Weingart Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 The Ahla 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
  • Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network — 47% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines