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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $1,393,792, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,655,214 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,261,422 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
EMPOWERED NETWORK$100,000
NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE$100,000
3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION$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
SOLEDAD ENRICHMENT ACTION INC$35,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$35,000
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK$25,000
LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ANITA MAY ROSENSTEIN C$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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%
+29%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Freedom Network Usa Inc

Freedom network usa mobilizes its collective strength to build a transformative approach to human trafficking that is grounded in anti-racism and anti-oppression.

Human Services
2
Prevention Now Inc

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

Human Services
3
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking

To end modern slavery through education, advocacy, and empowering survivors of human trafficking.

Crime & Legal
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
Safety Compass

The organization's mission is to offer support for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking, navigating the criminal and social justice systems in the northwest region of oregon.

Human Services
6
Real Escape From the Sex Trade

We exist to provide pathways to freedom, safety, and hope for victims of sex trafficking and people involved in the sex trade.

Crime & Legal
7
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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8
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
9
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
10
Youth Collaboratory Inc

Youth Collaboratory harnesses the power of the youth services community to innovate, evaluate, and drive effective strategies that assure the safety and well-being of youth and young adults, unlocking their limitless potential.

Human Services
11
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
12
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Street Grace Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSOLEDAD ENRICHMENT ACTION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetGreater New Orleans Housing Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGrand Avenue Economic Community Dev: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 budgetWellspring Living Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAIR GIRLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetStreet Grace Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLOWBEND FARMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLOVE146 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOAP PROJECT SAVE OUR ADOLESCENTS FROM PROSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $8,335 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ahla Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ahla Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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