All Girls Allowed Inc.

All Girls Allowed (AGA) is best understood as an operating charity that runs its own direct programs, not a pure grantmaking foundation — IRS records classify it as a non-grantmaker (foundation code 04) under NTEE Q70 (International/Community Development), and this platform's grantee database has no recorded grantee list for it. Founded June 1, 2010 by Chai Ling — a 1989 Tiananmen Square student protest leader, Harvard MBA, and founder of the software company Jenzabar, Inc. — AGA is headquartered at 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA. Its core work runs through three self-described pillars: Expose (awareness campaigns on trafficking and exploitation), Rescue & Resource (direct victim assistance — shelter, counseling, legal, financial support), and Celebrate (life-skills and recovery programming). Layered on top of these direct programs are two smaller pass-through grant channels: AGA Grants and the affiliated Jenzabar Foundation Grants (tied to the founder's software company). Both are currently listed as on hold for 2025, with 2023 the last confirmed active cycle. When active, the relationship model is a single-stage public application rather than an LOI-to-full-proposal funnel: a public window (historically July 17-August 18, preceded by July 10 'early partner access' for existing relationships) leads to award decisions in October. AGA funds up to 50% of a specific project's cost, averaging 30-50%, meaning applicants must already have the majority of their budget secured elsewhere. Eligible applicants are 501(c)(3) nonprofits or international equivalents (occasionally individuals in special cases), must operate ethically and be free of sanctions, and are expected to 'honor God in their practices' — this is an explicitly Christian, faith-based funder (tagline: 'In Jesus' name, Simply Love Her'). First-time applicants should treat this as a cost-share partner for a specific, budgeted project within one of the three pillars, not a general operating support source, and should expect post-award reporting against an evaluation plan with milestones.

AGA's disclosed financials show total assets of $8,625,289 in fiscal year 2024, up 13.9% from $7,574,105 in FY2023. Total revenue tells a different story: FY2024 revenue was $2,130,587, down 74.2% from FY2023's $8,257,093 — a swing large enough to suggest a one-time major gift, bequest, or capital contribution landed in FY2023, with FY2024 reverting to a more typical annual level near $2.1M. Grants-paid, total-giving, and grantee-level figures are not publicly disclosed in this dataset (the grantee list returns zero records), which is itself informative: unlike a traditional grantmaking foundation, AGA does not appear to report a standard annual grants list, consistent with its own site describing awards as a percentage of project cost (up to 50%, averaging 30-50%) rather than a published dollar range or median grant size. Based on that structure and the organization's overall revenue scale (~$2.1M/year), individual cost-share awards under the AGA Grants and Jenzabar Foundation Grants programs are most plausibly in the low five-figure to low six-figure range per project, though this is an inference from program parameters rather than a confirmed figure — no specific grant amounts were found in web research or the database. Geographically, funding and partnership activity is concentrated internationally: originally China (the organization's founding focus, tied to the One-Child Policy and gendercide), with confirmed active partnerships in Uganda (education for orphaned and vulnerable children, women's empowerment), Rwanda (TeachRwanda/Bright School, Muhanga District, Southern Province), and India (GTi HOPE, literacy programs for Dalit women). Programmatically, dollars flow through the same three buckets that structure AGA's own direct work — Expose, Rescue & Resource, and Celebrate — rather than a separate funding taxonomy, so applicants should map their project explicitly to one of these three categories.

AGA sits among a cluster of similarly-sized foundations sharing the 'International' NTEE classification in this platform's database, though none of the peers below have public program-area or grant-size detail beyond total assets.

AGA's asset base ($8.6M) sits in the middle of this peer group, comparable to Medserve Foundation and Blue Ocean Inc. and below the Center For The Encouragement Of Self-Reliance ($10.4M). What differentiates AGA from this peer set is transparency and structure: it is the only one of the six with a publicly documented, named grant program (AGA Grants and Jenzabar Foundation Grants) with stated eligibility, cost-share terms, and an application calendar — the peers show no public application process or program focus beyond the shared 'International' classification, making AGA comparatively easier for an outside applicant to actually approach despite its current on-hold status.

The most concrete recent activity found is a 15th-anniversary fundraiser and concert scheduled for May 9, 2026 (5-8pm) at Central Square Church in Cambridge, MA, spotlighting 15 survivor stories tied to AGA's founding on June 1, 2010. Leadership has been stable: founder Chai Ling continues as CEO; Kathryn Prioli has served as Director of Operations since February 2022, bringing over 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience; Barbara Patch serves as Director of Programs and Operations. The organization's public blog shows its most visible dated content clustering around 2020 (the 10th-anniversary post, an International Day of the Girl Child piece, and 'Joyful Life Programs' content), which suggests a lighter cadence of public updates in the last several years — worth noting honestly rather than papering over, since it means current-year programmatic news is thin in public sources. The single most actionable recent data point for grant seekers is negative but important: as of this research, both of AGA's grant channels (AGA Grants and the affiliated Jenzabar Foundation Grants) list their 2025 application cycle as 'on hold,' with 2023 the last confirmed live cycle (public window July 17-August 18, decisions in October). No 2025 or 2026 grant awards, new funding priorities, or program launches were found in web search or on the site beyond the anniversary event. Prospective applicants should treat the on-hold status as the headline finding and verify current status directly with staff before investing time in a proposal.

Confirm cycle status first: both AGA Grants and the Jenzabar Foundation Grants program list 2025 as on hold, so email info@allgirlsallowed.org before drafting anything to find out whether a 2026 or 2027 cycle has reopened. Come in funded: AGA covers at most 50% of a specific project's cost (averaging 30-50%), so a competitive application needs the remaining 50-70% of the budget already secured or firmly committed from other sources — proposals that ask AGA to be the sole or majority funder are a poor fit. Use AGA's own vocabulary: structure the narrative around one of its three named pillars — Expose (awareness/education on trafficking and exploitation), Rescue & Resource (direct victim support), or Celebrate (life-skills, recovery, community) — rather than generic girls'-empowerment framing; reviewers are matching proposals against this internal taxonomy. Expect and lean into the faith dimension: AGA is explicitly Christian (tagline 'In Jesus' name, Simply Love Her,' eligibility language requiring applicants to 'honor God in their practices'), so faith-aligned organizations should say so plainly, and secular organizations should at minimum emphasize verifiable ethical financial operations and a clean sanctions record, since that language appears directly in the eligibility criteria. Match the geography to existing partnerships where possible — confirmed active partner geographies are Uganda, Rwanda (Muhanga District via TeachRwanda/Bright School), India (Dalit women's literacy via GTi HOPE), and the founding focus on China — proposals in adjacent geographies or serving similar populations (trafficking survivors, vulnerable girls and mothers, under-resourced education) are the closest strategic fit. Build the relationship early: the historical calendar includes a July 10 'early partner access' window ahead of the July 17-August 18 public window, implying organizations with an existing relationship get first access — cold applicants should reach out well in advance of any announced reopening rather than waiting for the public window. Plan for compliance overhead: award agreements have historically required an 'Investment Evaluation Plan' with milestones and a final results report, plus a September 11-style follow-up-request checkpoint before October decisions — this is a more reporting-heavy process than the funding size might suggest, and applicants should budget staff time for it. The single most common mistake to avoid is requesting full project funding; AGA's model is fundamentally a cost-share, not a sole-source grant.