California · Private foundation
The Todd and Doris Ahlsten 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.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $74M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $322k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 39 | $3.0M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $2.4M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $3.5M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $1.1M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $798k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $585k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $489k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $132k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Strategies | $1,935,000 | 7 | 63% |
| Children Rising Inc | $460,000 | 5 | 11% |
| The V Foundation | $415,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Foundation for Students Rising Above | $365,000 | 5 | 2% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $325,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Feeding Nations Through Education | $286,000 | 2 | 32% |
| St Luke Ev Lutheran Church | $231,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Opportunity Junction Inc | $225,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Legal Assistance for Seniors | $225,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Matthew 25 Ministries Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 San Francisco Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Heffernan Group Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation
- How much does The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation give?
- The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $3,059,630 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (29%), Philanthropy (19%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Global Strategies ($1.9M), Children Rising Inc ($460k), The V Foundation ($415k).
- Does The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Todd and Doris Ahlsten 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 Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Lowell Berry Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation.
- Where is The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation based?
- The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation is based in CA.
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