Virginia · Nonprofit
AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC
AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,821 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($40,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Americans Helping Americans Inc does
Mission
Americans helping americans ("aha") provides basic necessities like food clothing, shelter, and support services. Aha is dedicated to helping poverty-stricken families, children, and elderly/disabled adults to meet their emergency needs and strengthen community relationship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Basic needs:holiday food: families in extreme poverty will often forgo planned saving just to have a traditional thanksgiving or holiday dinner. Parents, who want the best for their children, will spend more than they can afford to give their family some semblance of normalcy. It's a phenomenon aha and our field partners see every holiday season which is why more evictions happen around those times as families no longer have any savings to pay bills. Aha awarded $27,700 for holiday food, allowing 3,358 individuals to have a holiday meal. Thanksgiving and other holiday gatherings are hosted by field partners with volunteers to assist in inviting and serving the whole community.(see schedule o for continuation)approximately $7,400 in cash grants were awarded to field partners to provide basic support to 3,247 individuals which included hygiene and sanitation items, feminine and baby care, and purchasing any type of health item needed that often gets overlooked when living in extreme poverty.summer camps and feeding program: in fiscal year 2025, aha continued to assist the children even after they exited the school system for the summer by sponsoring summer feeding programs and…
$2,023,873 spentof which $1,767,010 as grants66% of program spendingEducation program:vocational training support: allowing students to train for specific skills is an important way to help an individual escape poverty. Aha sponsors tutors at the west virginia career and technology center in mcdowell county, the only vocational school in the county, to teach students law, video game design, and mechanical engineering to name a few studies. Students are helped with their coursework by tutors to pass their main high school courses and mentored throughout the vocational school training, ensuring they pass their tests. This program would not exist without $14,500 of aha funding assisting 209 individuals.(see schedule o for continuation)additionally, the want2work initiative gave funding to three vocational schools in kentucky and virginia so that they may purchase professional equipment and tools as well as pay for tests and accreditation for the students, relieving financial burdens on the young professionals. $70,000 were distributed between the five schools, lee county (va) career & technical center, lee county (ky) area technical center, and estill county area technical center, white county high school ctae, and tazewell county career & technical…
$920,660 spentof which $803,812 as grants30% of program spendingHousing/shelter:working with local and national volunteers, aha sponsored 141 home renovation/repair projects for low-income families, elderly, and disabled individuals. Aha staff and partner organizations have witnessed firsthand homes without roofs, missing walls, and huge holes in the walls and floors of homes within central appalachia. This frightening fact is why aha sponsors trained volunteer groups every year to assist with home repairs. The work can be extensive and includes digging drains, replacing foundations, constructing wheelchair ramps, repairing roofs and walls, replacing jousts underneath kitchens and bathrooms, and renovating bathrooms to keep sanitation high.(see schedule o for continuation)aha sees this as a need and for that, awarded $65,000 total grants to partners in west virginia, tennessee, georgia, and kentucky.
$107,381 spentof which $93,753 as grants$19,815 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,051,914.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $381k to $793k (+108%).
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.
99% of AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
James J O'Brien Esq
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $300 → $14k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Christian Relief Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS 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
AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 75% · 2020 78% · 2021 45% · 2022 33% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
78% of AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS 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 $18k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 22 related entities
- American Indian Youth Running Strong · exempt
- Christian Relief Services of Virginia · exempt
- Christian Relief Services Charities Inc · exempt
- Crs Triangle Housing Corporation · exempt
- Christian Relief Services Kansas Affordable Housing Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC?
- AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,821 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($40,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $80,821 in grants to AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC?
- Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICANS HELPING AMERICANS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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