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The Ahla Foundation
Washington, DC · EIN 13-6095316. Reported 47 grants totalling $2,743,197 to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Ahla Foundation, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B82Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 11% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $35,000. Half of what it reported fell between $16,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $7,074 and the largest $302,600. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $502,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Restore Nyc Inc | New York, NY | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Restaurant Association | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc | Compton, CA | $198,131 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rebecca Bender Initiative | Desoto, TX | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Safe House Project Inc | Alexandria, VA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking | Seattle, WA | $135,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ecpat USA End Child Prostitution Child Pornography and Trafficking | New York, NY | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 3STRANDS Global Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Empower Her Network Inc | New London, CT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Friends New Life | Dallas, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc | Orlando, FL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Lgbt Center | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bw Research Foundation Inc | Wrentham, MA | $49,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $48,299 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Skillpoint Alliance | Austin, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ementorconnect LLC | Atlaanta, GA | $39,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $36,893 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coalition for Responsible Community Development | Los Angeles, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Covenant House New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity Social Justice & Action | Montebello, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Soledad Enrichment Action Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Covenant House Washington DC | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grand Avenue Economic Community Development Corp | Orlando, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Libertys Kitchen | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Reconcile New Orleans Inc | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association Internat | Mclean, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fair Girls Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hoola Na Pua | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Justice Resource Institute Inc | Needham, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| LOVE146 Inc | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Repequity LLC | Vienna, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Soap Project- Save Our Adolescents From Prostitution | Westerville, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Street Grace | Norcross, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wellspring Living Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Willowbend Farms Inc | Cleveland, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valencia College Foundation | Orlando, FL | $7,074 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
7 of 39 (18%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The University of Marylandsafe Center
SURVIVOR FUND GRANT DISBURSEMENT - The University of Maryland Safe Center Through University of Maryland Balti
AHLAF EMPOWERING YOUTH PROGRAM GRANT - National Restaurant Association Solutions LLC
RTI GRANT TRAINING PROGRAMS:AHLA LODGING MANAGER APPRENTICE COURSE AHLA LINE COOK APPRENTICE COURSE - Skillpoint Alliance
OPPORTUNITY YOUTH PROGRAM - Ementorconnect LLC
APPLY TO GRANTS OR FEES TO PROVIDE MENTOR PROGRAM - Soledad Enrichment Action Inc
CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | $231,774 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 7 | $582,631 | $39,500 |
| 2023 | 5 | $535,000 | $100,000 |
| 2024 | 26 | $1,393,792 | $30,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
18% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $35,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Ahla Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 26 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1250 I Street Nw 1100, Washington, DC, 20005.
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