How much does Ash Family Foundation give?

Ash Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $45,022 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ash Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Health (21%), Education (12%).

Who are Ash Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Seattle Repertory Theatre ($99k), Overlake Hospital Foundation ($78k), Oakland Museum of California ($65k).

Does Ash Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ash Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ash Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.

Where is Ash Family Foundation based?

Ash Family Foundation is based in WA.

Ash Family Foundation

Ash Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ash Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$16k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$362kHealth$179kEducation$103kInternational$57kReligion$23kCivil Rights$12kMembership Benefit$8kAnimals$7kOther$0

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $29k
$10k–50k1 grant · $16k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OVERLAKE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION	$16,000
SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL	$7,500
FULCRUM FOUNDATION	$6,000
SEATTLE SYMPHONY	$5,000
THE FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE	$3,000
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE	$3,000
SEATTLE CHAPTER ARCS FOUNDATION	$2,500
ST JOHN ENDOWMENT FUND	$1,022
NPH USA	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$664k · 46 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$664k

$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+18%

Still filing today

74%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsOther

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

SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
7× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +14%
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OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +25%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
5× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +76%

Funded once

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5TH AVENUE THEATRE
one grant, 2019 · $60k
RIDER UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -15%
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ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
one grant, 2018 · $7k

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.

Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development

Seattle Foundation

Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

Philanthropy

The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals

Friends of Kexp

Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.

Youth Development

The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education

Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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Seattle International Foundation

Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…

Philanthropy

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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Pacific Science Center Foundation

Pacific science center (pacsci) ignites curiosity in every child and fuels a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking in all of us.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 92 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/58

Grantees still filing

43/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$337,215Arts & Culture$235,972Health$110,728Education$63,950International$56,335Human Services$17,750Civil Rights$10,328

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

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.

Seattle FoundationWA47.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Artsfund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Foster Foundation · Thurston Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation

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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ash Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home