How much does The Ahuja Foundation give?

The Ahuja Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $2,078,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Ahuja Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (56%), Philanthropy (21%), Education (8%).

Who are The Ahuja Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Naples Children Foundation Inc ($785k), Friends of Breakthrough Schools ($260k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($242k).

Does The Ahuja Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ahuja Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Ahuja Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Sullivan Family Fund, The Lozick Family Foundation.

Where is The Ahuja Foundation based?

The Ahuja Foundation is based in FL.

The Ahuja Foundation

The Ahuja Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ahuja 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.

$2.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$5.2MPhilanthropy$1.9MEducation$753kArts & Culture$302kFood & Nutrition$244kHuman Services$206kYouth Development$154kInternational$60kOther$0

02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $61k
$10k–50k15 grants · $268k
$50k–250k4 grants · $400k
$250k+2 grants · $1.4M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$47M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NCH CENTER PHILANTHROPY	$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS	$350,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS	$200,000
NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$100,000
AKSHAYA PATRA	$50,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK	$50,000
UH RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$30,000
FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY	$30,000
THE SHELTER	$25,000
AKSHAYA PATRA	$25,000
THE RIVER SCHOOL	$25,000
LAKE CO FREE CLINIC	$25,000
POTOMAC SCHOOL	$20,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY	$15,000
ROCK-N-ROLL HALL OF FAME	$12,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.8M · 54 repeat orgs$413k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.8M

$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+19%

Still filing today

59%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

NC
NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $785k · revenue +84%
GC
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $242k · revenue +10%
US
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
7× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +44%

Funded once

CC
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $100k
TO
THE OPHTHALMOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +119%
UB
UM BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE OF NAPLES
one grant, 2018 · $30k

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.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cleveland Museum of Art. 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

64 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. 64 of the 107 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/64

Grantees still filing

46/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,791,850Philanthropy$955,802Education$779,595Food & Nutrition$292,000Arts & Culture$237,500Health$193,750Human Services$62,750

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.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Sullivan Family Fund · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Covia Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Ahuja Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ahuja Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home