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The Ajl Charitable 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.1MYouth Development$946kCommunity Improvement$687kHealth$605kPhilanthropy$593kEducation$432kCivil Rights$344kHousing & Shelter$278kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $416k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $585k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FND FOR BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP$150,000
AYA FOUNDATION$150,000
THE DENVER FOUNDATION$150,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$85,000
CASA DE AMPARO$50,000
COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CTR$40,000
HADANOU COLLECTIVE$23,000
CONEJOS CLEAN WATER$22,500
CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE PROGRAMS$20,000
DOWNTOWN ISLAMIC CENTER$20,000
BACKPACK SOCIETY$20,000
COLORADO ASIAN PACIFIC UNITED$20,000
FOSTER SOURCE$20,000
EAST COLFAX COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE$20,000
SAN LUIS VALLEY IMMIGRANT$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $928k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $7k → 11%PRARIE FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 11%FOSTERING HOPE: $15k → 9%FOSTER SOURCE: $20k → 10%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $7k → 11%PRARIE FAMILY CENTER: $15k → 11%FOSTERING HOPE: $15k → 9%THE MATHEWS HOUSE: $13k → 11%THE PRARIE FAMILY CENTER: $11k → 11%FOSTERING HOPE: $10k → 9%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES: $500 → 10%THE MATHEWS HOUSE: $3k → 11%ALAMOSA BICYCLE COALITION: $20k → 18%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $20k → 10%CASA DE AMPARO: $58k → 11%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $20k → 10%CASA DE AMPARO: $54k → 11%CEDS FINANCE: $20k → 8%CASA DE AMPARO: $53k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $50k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $50k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $50k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $48k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $35k → 11%DENVER INDIAN CENTER: $20k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICK: $20k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICK: $20k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICK: $15k → 12%KIDS ABOVE EVERYTHING: $20k → 12%DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CTR: $20k → 12%KIDS ABOVE EVERYTHING: $20k → 12%DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CTR: $20k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $20k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $20k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $20k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $20k → 12%STRUGGLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER: $28k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER: $25k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER: $25k → 12%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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 59 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
66

Total granted

$3.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+77%

Still filing today

73%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k 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 ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • CD
    Casa De Amparo
    8× · 2017–2024 · $397k · revenue +17%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    6× · 2017–2022 · $376k · revenue +120%
  • FF
    Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • RR
    RIGHTEOUS RAGE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • CF
    CHINOOK FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $113k · revenue +136%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $96k
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
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.

Health
3
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
4
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…

Arts & Culture
5
La Plata Youth Services

La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.

Crime & Legal
6
Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization

Empowering Latino communities through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research to strengthen Colorado

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7
El Centro Amistad

Create opportunities and programs that promote health equity education and quality of life for the latino community in boulder county in colorado.

Human Services
8
Seeking Common Ground Inc

Building Bridges equip inclusive leaders with the skills they need to transform divides in their communities. Building Bridges two key program areas are Transform and Shift. Transform brings together diverse young people from Metro Denver…

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9
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
10
Denver Area Youth Services

To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.

Human Services
11
Colorado People's Alliance

Colorado people's alliance (copa) is a racial justice, member-driven organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change locally, statewide and nationally. copa builds power to improve the lives of all coloradans…

Human Services
12
Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Indian Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Conejos County Clean Water 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

104 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. 104 of the 160 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/104
Grantees still filing
72/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASA ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $163,258 · OtherCASA ADVOCATES FOR CHILDRENTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $154,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONRIGHTEOUS RAGE INSTITUTE: $150,000 · OtherRIGHTEOUS RAGE INSTITUTEI HAVE A DREAM OF BOULDER COUNTY: $120,000 · OtherFAMILY HOMESTEAD: $120,000 · OtherCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION: $110,500 · OtherILLUMINATE: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $95,622 · Other+93 more: $1,715,290 · Other+93 moreCasa De Amparo: $396,500 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC: $77,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF…WARREN VILLAGE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE IN…LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $55,000 · Human ServicesLABORATORY TO COM…Prairie Family Center: $46,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $40,000 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesKids Above Everything: $40,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human Services+9 more: $132,500 · Human Services+9 moreFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $249,500 · Community ImprovementFoundation …AYA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Community ImprovementAYA FOUNDAT…THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $115,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORAD…CULTIVANDO: $20,000 · Community ImprovementEast Colfax Community Collective: $20,000 · Community ImprovementRise 5280: $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $12,500 · Community ImprovementTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVE…CHINOOK FUND INC: $112,500 · PhilanthropyCHINOOK F…+1 more: $12,500 · PhilanthropySHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $376,000 · HealthTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $42,650 · HealthMama Bird Doula Services: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $1,000 · HealthCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationCROWLEY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · EducationMoonshot edVentures: $41,000 · EducationYOUTHROOTS: $40,000 · EducationDELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationGRAND BEGINNINGS: $30,000 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $27,500 · EducationTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $23,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EducationMontbello Organizing Committee: $20,000 · EducationHANDS TO THE FUTURE INC: $20,000 · Education+5 more: $8,000 · EducationProject VOYCE: $93,500 · Youth DevelopmentINVEST IN KIDS: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Empowerment Broadcasting Org: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentFULLY LIBERATED YOUTH: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentART FROM ASHES INCORPORATED: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSLIM YOUTH FOR POSITIVE IMPACT: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentINSPIRE: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentDENVER YOUTH PROGRAM: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,738,670Human Services$927,500Community Improvement$587,000Philanthropy$525,000Health$439,650Education$377,000Youth Development$369,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $396,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $376,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $249,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetAYA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetFAMILY HOMESTEAD: $120,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $115,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHINOOK FUND INC: $112,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION: $110,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetProject VOYCE: $93,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetStreet Fraternity Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC: $77,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $65,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE PROGRAMS: $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $50,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCONEJOS COUNTY CLEAN WATER INC: $47,500 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetPrairie Family Center: $46,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCROWLEY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $42,650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLA PUENTE HOME INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMoonshot edVentures: $41,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetColorado Asian Pacific United: $40,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTHROOTS: $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMPOUND OF COMPASSION: $40,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetDENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetKids Above Everything: $40,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetDELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetTRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYouth Empowerment Broadcasting Org: $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC: $32,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetGRAND BEGINNINGS: $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHEART AND HAND CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY MINISTRY OF SW DENVER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $23,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN LUIS VALLEY HOUSING COALITION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $22,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $21,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetART FROM ASHES INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetColorado Folk Arts Council: $20,000 over 1y, 29% 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.

  • Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship ↗
  • Who funds AYA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HOMESTEAD ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHINOOK FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Project VOYCE ↗
  • Who funds Street Fraternity Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC ↗
  • Who funds CONEJOS COUNTY CLEAN WATER INC ↗
  • Who funds Prairie Family Center ↗
  • Who funds CROWLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds Moonshot edVentures ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Asian Pacific United ↗
  • Who funds UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHROOTS ↗
  • Who funds COMPOUND OF COMPASSION ↗

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 Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…The Women's Foundatio…Caring for Colorado F…The Colorado TrustLatino Community Foun…Anschutz Family Found…Caring for Denver Fou…Mile High United Way …Gates Family Foundati…
The Colorado Health FoundationCO125.9× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gates Family Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
56report 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.
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How do I get to The Ajl Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ajl Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 160 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-PF 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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