Ahla Foundation Inc

Analysis

Ahla Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1959, 67 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Ahla Foundation Inc reported income of $5.9m and spending of $7.0m, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.1m to $5.9m (+180%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 156%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Ahla Foundation Inc sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arthur I Meyer Jewish Academy Inc ($5.9m), San Diego Virtual School ($5.9m) and Preston Hollow Presbyterian School ($5.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% and program service revenue 5.4% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.6m. At year end it held assets of $33.4m against liabilities of $676k, net assets of $32.7m.