Texas · Nonprofit
THE LADDER ALLIANCE
THE LADDER ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,567,203 to it, the largest being THE DEENA JO HEIDE-DIESSLIN FOUNDATION ($498,890). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $630k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Ladder Alliance does
Mission
The mission of the Ladder Alliance is to provide survivors of domestic violence and low-income women with the tools to lead self-reliant, independent, and successful lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Ladder Alliance merged with Safe City Commission dba One Safe Place (OSP). The two organizations entered into a management agreement where OSP assumed day to day oversight of employees on 10/1 and absorbed the entire organization as of 1/1/25.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
We offer several programs: Basic Computer Skills Training (BCST); Professional Office Skills Training (POST); Microsoft Office Specialist Training (MOST); QuickBooks Office Training (QBOT); and Next Level. POST broadens professional skills, including QuickBooks Basics as a core component, customer service classes taught by Tarrant County College instructors, public speaking, and other professional development topics. The Microsoft Office Specialist Training (MOST) course develops a technical understanding of the Microsoft programs and prepares students to sit for the globally recognized Microsoft Office Specialist certification in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. QuickBooks Office Training (QBOT) provides an in depth training of QuickBooks allowing students to sit for an exam and earn a certification. Next Level, launched in 2022, supports current students, alumni, and community members with under-resourced backgrounds. The program includes seminars in English and Spanish, covering salary negotiation, Entrepreneurship 101, resume creation, mock interviews, and many other skill building tools needed to attain and keep a job.
$1,472,604 spentof which $660,964 as grants$46,787 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,472,604.
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.
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 $0 (−100%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2018 15% · 2019 12% · 2020 24% · 2021 31% · 2023 18% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Danyelle Ackall
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $60k → $567k.
6 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 THE LADDER ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
THE LADDER ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 13% · 2022 22% · 2023 44% — 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
53% of THE LADDER ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
80% of THE LADDER ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $274k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like THE LADDER ALLIANCE
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LADDER ALLIANCE: 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 THE LADDER ALLIANCE?
- THE LADDER ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,567,203 to it, the largest being THE DEENA JO HEIDE-DIESSLIN FOUNDATION ($498,890). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LADDER ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,567,203 in grants to THE LADDER ALLIANCE, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LADDER ALLIANCE?
- THE DEENA JO HEIDE-DIESSLIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $498,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LADDER ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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