Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC
HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,680 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($115,180). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $440k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $136k
- Net assets
- $-122069
What Hostage Aid Worldwide Inc does
Mission
Hostage aid's mission is to assist hostages and unlawful detainees and their families by providing insights on their cases and coordination with governments & un bodies, as well as strategies to disrupt the hostage business model and the emerging threat of hostage diplomacy. This is done by combining global advocacy with empirical data driven methods and extensive research. Hostage aid focuses on advocating for, supporting and documenting cases involving foreign and dual nationals taken hostage or unlawfully detained.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Description of exempt purpose achievements: mobile app worked on revamping its mobile app for apple and android devices, which includes features such as the hostage metrics engine and hostage risk predictor. Hostage metrics engine continued to expand the hostage metrics engine (hme), the largest comprehensive database of known hostages and unlawfully detained persons globally since 1979, beginning with the iran hostage crisis. Compiled from millions of records, the hme accumulates and organizes real-time data on arrests, detentions, kidnappings, releases, and legal proceedings. It features an intuitive interface that allows users to filter information by country, date, legal status, and outcome, enabling stakeholders to quickly access relevant case details and historical data. Hostage risk predictor continued to enhance the hostage risk predictor, an advanced analytical tool designed to evaluate and predict the likelihood of individuals being taken hostage or unlawfully detained abroad. Leveraging the vast dataset from the hostage metrics engine, the predictor uses sophisticated algorithms to analyze patterns, geopolitical risks, and other relevant factors including travel…
$498,760 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $498,760.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $86k to $138k (+61%).
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.
88% of HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE 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
HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC.
“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
89% of HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE 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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC?
- HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,680 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($115,180). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $135,680 in grants to HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $115,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 3 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