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Ashburn Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $256k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MADISON ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| AMBLESIDE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS INC | $20,500 |
| GENEROSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WELLSTONE INC | $15,000 |
| NEW HOPE CHILDREN'S CLINIC | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH AL | $10,000 |
| GRISSOM BAND PARENT'S ORGANIZATION | $10,000 |
| WORLD SURGICAL INFECTION SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTH ALABAMA VETERANS & FRATERNAL | $10,000 |
| HUNTSVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MAMADISON ACADEMY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $140k · revenue +51%
- FIFRIENDS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $91k · revenue +30%
- NHNew Hope Children's Clinic4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SPSOUTHERN PREPARATORY ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $30k
- NANORTH ALABAMA VETERANS COALITIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- TLTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide emergency medical services to the general public and contract ambulance services.
To promote and encourage the understanding, appreciation, and study of the art of music
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Harrison memorial hospital exists for the purpose of providing high quality health and medical care services to the people of harrison and surrounding counties of out region within the capabilities of our resources. in fulfilling this…
Our mission is to provide the highest quality healthcare, in a christian manner with hometown compassion to the communities we serve.
Bingham memorial hospital is committed to the pursuit of excellence in its endeavor to provide a continuum of quality, compassionate healthcare services for our residents and for visitors to bingham county, in the most effective and cost…
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
North mississippi medical clinics, inc. (clinics) owns and operates 34 primary care and internal medicine clinics, all primarily within north mississippi and northwest alabama. clinics is part of the north mississippi health services…
The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.
Hospice provides care from the heart to fulfill the unique needs of patients and families.
Marietta memorial hospital is a not-for-profit community hospital where service excellence and clinical quality create the region's best experience for patients and their families, physicians, the community, and our employees.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Survivor Outdoor and the most unlike its peers is Opera Huntsville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MADISON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds New Hope Children's Clinic ↗
- Who funds GENEROSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD SURGICAL INFECTION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE-MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds AMBLESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds STILL SERVING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN BMX INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds Opera Huntsville ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ashburn Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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