Global Ahead Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824180889
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Frederick, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2405579654
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Operating Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,852,506
- Expenses
- $5,439,354
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Operating Foundations
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 9 grants totaling $5,165,980. The stated grant purposes included program coordination training and operational, field support and community development, and community initiatives and leadership training, plus 6 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no charitable disbursements for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and a large share of spending goes to grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 95
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 50
- Endowment Health: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: Limited
- Filing consistency checks: 8; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 0.03; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: Filed payout detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: Filed self-dealing detail
- Investments: 0th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 0/100.