Alabama · Private foundation
Ashburn Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $300k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 17
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Ashburn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $290k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $261k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $236k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $280k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $295k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Academy Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends Inc | $110,800 | 5 | 12% |
| New Hope Children's Clinic | $90,000 | 5 | 4% |
| World Surgical Infection Society Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 41% |
| Generosity Foundation | $57,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Ambleside School | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Soul Survivor Outdoor | $55,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Wellstone Inc | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Huntsville Youth Orchestra Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Academy Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends Inc | $110,800 | 5 | 12% |
| New Hope Children's Clinic | $90,000 | 5 | 4% |
| World Surgical Infection Society Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 41% |
| Generosity Foundation | $57,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Ambleside School | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Soul Survivor Outdoor | $55,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Wellstone Inc | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Huntsville Youth Orchestra Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Land Trust of North Alabama Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Still Serving Veterans | $16,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Parents and Children Together | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bozeman Bmx Inc | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Food Bank of North Alabama Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Opera Huntsville | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($558k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ashburn Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · The Propst Foundation · Alpha Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
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About Ashburn Family Foundation
- How much does Ashburn Family Foundation give?
- Ashburn Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Ashburn Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (27%), Human Services (21%).
- Who are Ashburn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Madison Academy Inc ($180k), Friends Inc ($111k), New Hope Children's Clinic ($90k).
- Does Ashburn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ashburn Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ashburn Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation.
- Where is Ashburn Family Foundation based?
- Ashburn Family Foundation is based in AL.
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