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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
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

10
’17
3
’18
9
’19
2
’20
6
’21
4
’22
10
’23
5
’24
9
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$242kHealth$153kInternational$14kPhilanthropy$11kReligion$10kRecreation & Sports$8kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL$5,000
HOPE & HEROES$3,500
92ND STREET Y$1,780
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,500
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC$1,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$1,000
MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$1,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES$1,000
AMERICA SCORES NEW YORK$184
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%GLOBAL FUND FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $500 → 11%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $540 → 6%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%THE JEWISH BOARD: $2k → 17%JCC MANHATTAN: $2k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
OK
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$173k · 15 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

$173k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-3%

Still filing today

73%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HH
    HOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND
    5× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +144%
  • RC
    RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +33%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (180 SHS NATHAN'S FAMOUS INC)
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH)
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • GL
    Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
8
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
9
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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10
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Janet Burros Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
28/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $180,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIARIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $17,500 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $17,460 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NE…+2 more: $1,350 · EducationHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $125,060 · HealthHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FU…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,350 · Health+7 more: $7,510 · Health+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (180 SHS NATHAN'S FAMOUS INC): $24,643 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENN…Individual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…MSK GIVING: $6,160 · OtherMSK GIVINGCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH): $5,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSIT…+32 more: $28,886 · Other+32 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,473 · Philanthropy+2 more: $540 · PhilanthropyJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $2,340 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $1,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $750 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPEN: $540 · Human ServicesThe Global Fund for Mental Health Inc: $500 · Human ServicesFRESH AIR FUND: $3,300 · Recreation & SportsGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $184 · Recreation & SportsTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $5,380 · Religion
Education$216,310Health$137,920Other$73,689Philanthropy$11,013Human Services$8,430Recreation & Sports$6,984Religion$5,380

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $125,060 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $17,460 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $5,380 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN HOPE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $2,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LYME: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,473 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $1,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $562 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Global Fund for Mental Health Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $184 over 1y, 0.0% of budget2X4 FOUNDATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ash Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ash Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Ash Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Ash Charitable Trust 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.

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 66 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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