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The Todd and Doris Ahlsten Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

International$3.6MPhilanthropy$2.3MEducation$1.6MReligion$1.3MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$808kYouth Development$390kCrime & Legal$266kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $487k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+2 grants · $787k
$45,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Global Strategies$500,000
The Ahlsten Foundation Scholarship$287,006
Path Ministries International$185,000
First Place for Youth$150,000
Feeding Nations through Education$150,000
Massachusetts General Hospital$125,000
Legal Assistance for Seniors$125,000
Shepherd's Gate$110,000
Many Hopes$100,000
Students Rising Above$100,000
Children Rising$100,000
Matthew 25 Ministries$100,000
First Responders Childrens Foundati$100,000
V Foundation for Cancer Research$100,000
UCSF$75,000
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 (FY17–24, $286k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $30k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $25k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $25k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $10k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $10k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $6k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $6k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%Camp Kesem: $1k → 8%Bay Area Rescue Mission: $5k → 9%Bay Area Rescue Mission: $2k → 9%First Place for Youth: $150k → 10%Monument Crisis Center: $10k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $5k → 9%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

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 69 repeat orgs$777k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
62

Total granted

$11M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+2%

Still filing today

58%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $524k 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
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GS
    Global Strategies
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +20% · 63% of their budget
  • CR
    CHILDREN RISING INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $460k · revenue +23%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • PA
    PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +65%
  • FP
    First Presbyterian Church of Berkel
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • UB
    UC Berkeley
    one grant, 2020 · $22k
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
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Alliance for Safety and Justice

Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…

Crime & Legal
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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4
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
5
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
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
8
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
11
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
12
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

80 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. 80 of the 146 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
54/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Ahlsten Foundation Scholarship: $1,416,073 · OtherThe Ahlsten Foundation ScholarshipEastBay Formosan United Methodist C: $238,050 · OtherST LUKE EV LUTHERAN CHURCH: $231,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC: $225,000 · Other+98 more: $2,552,309 · Other+98 moreGlobal Strategies: $1,935,000 · HealthGlobal StrategiesTHE V FOUNDATION: $415,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $325,250 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEA…+8 more: $48,299 · HealthFeeding Nations Through Education: $286,000 · InternationalFeeding Nat…Matthew 25 Ministries Inc: $200,000 · InternationalMatthew 25 …INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $200,000 · InternationalINTERNATION…DIRECT RELIEF: $190,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELI…WORLD RESOURCES GROUP INC: $125,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOU…MANY HOPES INC: $100,000 · InternationalMANY HOPES …WORLD VISION INC: $93,819 · InternationalWORLD VISIO…+2 more: $30,000 · InternationalCHILDREN RISING INC: $460,000 · ReligionPATH International: $185,000 · ReligionCANAL ALLIANCE: $115,000 · Religion+2 more: $30,000 · ReligionNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $325,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS: $225,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH: $30,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $150,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $112,500 · Human ServicesSOAR For Youth: $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $75,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $365,000 · PhilanthropyASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $60,000 · PhilanthropyThe Livestrong Foundation: $20,625 · Philanthropy+3 more: $17,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,162,432Health$2,723,549International$1,224,819Religion$790,000Crime & Legal$581,000Human Services$475,500Philanthropy$462,625

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 budgetGlobal Strategies: $1,935,000 over 7y, 63% of budgetCHILDREN RISING INC: $460,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $415,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $365,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $325,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $325,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding Nations Through Education: $286,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC: $225,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetLEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS: $225,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $190,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATH International: $185,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetShepherds Gate: $185,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWATER FOUNDATION: $177,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES GROUP INC: $125,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetEast Oakland Youth Development Center: $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $115,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $112,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMANY HOPES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSOAR For Youth: $95,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $93,819 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFuture Talent of Silicon Valley: $75,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLOTUS BLOOM: $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN: $57,014 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Livestrong Foundation: $20,625 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Guardsmen: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Contra Costa: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $11,248 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $9,900 over 4y, 0.4% 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 Global Strategies ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Feeding Nations Through Education ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS ↗
  • Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds PATH International ↗
  • Who funds Shepherds Gate ↗
  • Who funds WATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RESOURCES GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds East Oakland Youth Development Center ↗
  • Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MANY HOPES INC ↗
  • Who funds SOAR For Youth ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Future Talent of Silicon Valley ↗
  • Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LOTUS BLOOM ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC FUND ↗

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 San Francisco Fou…Lowell Berry Foundati…East Bay Community Fo…Bernard E & Alba Witk…Dean and Margaret Les…The James Irvine Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Heffernan Group Found…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…McNabb Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA32.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to The Todd and Doris Ahlsten 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 146 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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