New York · Nonprofit
ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC
ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,215,535 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,620,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Aldea Advancing Local Development Through Empowerment and Action Inc does
Mission
Aldea's mission is to promote sustainable and community-centered development programs that improve the lives of families with limited resources in guatemala's rural mayan communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Guatemalan community assistance: advancing local development through empowerment and action works with our partners in guatemala to address health and development issues affecting rural mayan communities. We support a community-driven development approach that targets chronic childhood malnutrition, a problem affecting 50-90% of children in the areas where we work, while building the community's capacity to address future challenges on their own. We support participating families in installing basic water and sanitation infrastructure, implementing nutrition and sustainable agriculture initiatives, and ensuring everyone in the community including women and youth has a voice in the decision-making process.
$954,344 spentof which $954,344 as grants75% of program spendingEducation and outreach: advancing local development through empowerment and action supports our partners in guatemala in planning and implementing community development programs. We work to raise awareness in the u.s. On the health needs in rural guatemala and the importance of supporting communities to address them. Through tours and other outreach initiatives, we educate donors and others on the effectiveness of initiatives like preventing infectious diseases by building potable water systems that bring running water to communities and homes; preventing respiratory illnesses, burns, and deforestation by constructing efficient, vented stoves; improving sanitary conditions by constructing gray water filters and latrines; supporting families in providing good nutrition to their children during the first 1,000 days of life.
$320,051 spent$25,986 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,274,395.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+60%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
93% of ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Arianne Peterson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $142k → $1.7M.
15 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 42% · 2019 34% · 2020 31% · 2021 50% · 2022 28% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $625k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC is better cushioned than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC?
- ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,215,535 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($1,620,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,215,535 in grants to ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,620,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing