How much does Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust give?

Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust reported 37 grants totaling $325,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 54 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are International (41%), Civil Rights (16%), Religion (12%).

Who are Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($150k), United States Association for UNHCR ($105k), Catholic Relief Services ($100k).

Does Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust 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 Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shelter Partnership Inc, Arc of Justice, The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co.

Where is Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust based?

Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust is based in CA.

Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust

Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$326k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$20k

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 2026.

International$1.0MCivil Rights$383kReligion$299kHuman Services$159kEnvironment$139kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kHousing & Shelter$80kArts & Culture$50kOther$0

02FY2026 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k21 grants · $101k
$10k–50k16 grants · $225k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Catholic Relief Services	$20,000
Amnesty International	$20,000
Human Rights Watch	$20,000
Partners In Health	$20,000
USA for UNHCR	$20,000
Truthout	$20,000
Southern Poverty Law Center	$15,000
Young Center for Immigrant Children	$10,000
RAICES	$10,000
Haiti Nursing Foundation	$10,000
Al Otro Lado	$10,000
350Org	$10,000
Doctors Without Borders	$10,000
Refugee Council USA	$10,000
UNRWA USA National Committee	$10,000

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 (FY17–26, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 73 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

73 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2026, 39 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+74%

Still filing today

63%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 92% 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

InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentReligionPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
10× · 2017–2026 · $150k · revenue +120%
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
5× · 2022–2026 · $100k · revenue +1%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2026 · $80k · revenue +98%

Funded once

FO
Friends of Peace Jst in the Holy La
one grant, 2017 · $5k
CE
Catholic Education Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $5k
GW
GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +92%

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.

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services

Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International

The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International

International Refugee Assistance Project Inc

Irap is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. everyone should have a safe…

Human Services

Refugee Protection International Inc

Rpi's mission is to partner with local non-gov organizations and others to strengthen protection and self-reliance among refugees and internally displaced persons near conflict zones.

International

Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International

The International Refugee Rights Initiative

To enhance the protection of rights of the displaced worldwide by the provision of advice and assistance on the application of international law, the conducting of research on the interpretation and application of international law and the…

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Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services

Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Society for Biblical Studies 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

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 92 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)

56/59

Grantees still filing

46/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$932,360Other$951,500Human Services$190,000Health$150,000Environment$76,340Crime & Legal$76,000Religion$73,000

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.

Shelter Partnership IncCA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shelter Partnership Inc · Arc of Justice · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · California Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Tides Foundation · United Way Inc · Weingart Foundation · Open Society Institute

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 Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theodore A Von Der Ahe Jr Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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