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Absher Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
53%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$49,721
Largest grant, FY2025
$684,052
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$45M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Absher Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$2.0M40%
FY202415$1.5M53%
FY20236$623k67%
FY20223$482k33%
FY20214$451k100%
FY20201$66kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$919kHealth$746kEmployment$393kHuman Services$275kArts & Culture$126kFood & Nutrition$68kAnimals$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ferrell Hospital Community Foundation$734,75941%
Carmi Compassion Center$50,000161%
The Guardian Center Inc$30,00015%
White County Ceo$10,000141%
Safe Haven$10,00013%
Carmi Christmas Elves Inc$2510%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.

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How do I get to Absher Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Absher Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Absher Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Absher Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Absher Charitable Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $1,957,744 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Absher Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%), Health (15%).
Who are Absher Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ferrell Hospital Community Foundation ($735k), Carmi Compassion Center ($50k), The Guardian Center Inc ($30k).
Does Absher Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Absher Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Absher Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Absher Charitable Foundation Inc is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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