Ohio · Nonprofit
ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,218 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ($5,445). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Alpha Rho Lambda Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
Obtain resources needed to promote scholarship, encourage personal development, and community based educational programs for all people, with a specific focus on youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Alpha esquires the alpha esquires is a youth development group for young men from the franklin county area who are in grades 9-12. The objectives are to involve the young men in programs in leadership development training, career awareness, community involvement, educational planning, communication skills, social awareness, and scholastic excellence.
$15,476 spent37% of program spendingSimilar to alpha esquires, junior esquire academy is a youth development group for young men from the franklin county area who are in grades 7-8. The objectives are lso to involve the young men in programs in leadership development training, career awareness, community involvement, educational planning, communication skills, social awareness, and scholastic excellence.
$5,396 spent13% of program spendingAn annual college scholarship program for high school seniors. The selection process includes an application, interview, and final assessment within a rubric-based scoring model.
$10,754 spentof which $10,754 as grants26% of program spendingProject alpha is designed to provide education to young men, ages 12-18, on issues like relationships, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases through a series of workshops and informational sessions. Changing attitudes and creating a sense of empowerment are among the ways the program tries to deflect the ignorance and fear that manifest within peer groups
$10,521 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,147.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
95% of ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Elon Simms
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50 → $87.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
50% of ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $349 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,218 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ($5,445). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,218 in grants to ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,445 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALPHA RHO LAMBDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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