New York · Private foundation
Ash Charitable Trust
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.
- $16k
- Granted FY2021
- 9
- Grants FY2021
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of Ash Charitable Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Ash Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $16k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 2
- Total assets, FY2021
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Ash Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 8 | $14k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $6k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $29k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $11k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund | $125,060 | 5 | 1% |
| Riverdale Country School Inc | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | $5,380 | 2 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $5,350 | 3 | 0% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $3,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Aspen Hope Center | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc | $2,340 | 1 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Project Lyme | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ash Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Ash Charitable Trust
- How much does Ash Charitable Trust give?
- Ash Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $15,964 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Ash Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Health (33%), International (3%).
- Who are Ash Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund ($125k), Riverdale Country School Inc ($18k), The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ($5k).
- Does Ash Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ash Charitable Trust 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ash Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Ash Charitable Trust based?
- Ash Charitable Trust is based in NY.
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