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Asher Family Foundation Inc

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.

$124k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Food & Nutrition$144kHealth$116kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kHousing & Shelter$31kEducation$29kInternational$28kCommunity Improvement$23kEnvironment$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DC Abortion Fund$10,000
Planned Parenthood$10,000
Raising a Village Foundation$10,000
South Fort Myers Food Pantry$10,000
World Central Kitchen$10,000
Americares$10,000
Marthas Table$5,000
National Immigration Law Center$5,000
Bread for the City$5,000
So Others Might Eat$5,000
Womens Emergency Network$5,000
Miriams Kitchen$5,000
Bright beginnings$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Emmas Torch$2,170
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Emma's Torch: $3k → 20%Miriam's Kitchen: $8k → 14%Emmas Torch: $2k → 20%Miriam's Kitchen: $8k → 14%Conexion Americas: $1k → 14%Emma's Torch: $2k → 20%Miriam's Kitchen: $5k → 14%Conexion Americas: $1k → 14%Emma's Torch: $1k → 20%Miriams Kitchen: $5k → 14%Conexion Americas: $1k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $5k → 14%Conexion Americas: $1k → 14%Conexion Americas: $1k → 14%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%The Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Greater DC Diaper Bank: $2k → 14%Greater DC Diaper Bank: $2k → 14%Greater DC Diaper Bank: $2k → 14%Greater DC Diaper Bank: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$503k · 35 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
3

Total granted

$503k
$3k

Still filing today

80%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +21%
  • DC ABORTION FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +289%
  • MK
    MIRIAM'S KITCHEN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • MA
    MD Anderson
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • LM
    LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500

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

04Your field

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.

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Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
4
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
9
Center for Science in the Public Interest

The center for science in the public interest is america's food and health watchdog. cspi envisions a healthy population with reduced impact and burden of preventable diseases and an equitable food system that makes healthy, sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
10
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
11
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
12
Business Executives for National Security

Bens applies industry experience and best business practices to help address our nation's pressing national security challenges.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is New Commumity for Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%13%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr15%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%29%10–20yr18%8%20–35yr16%42%35–55yr15%11%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,965

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

South Fort Myers Food Pantry — $48,000 · OtherSouth Fort Myers Food PantryPlanned Parenthood — $39,000 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodSOME INC — $31,000 · OtherSOME INCIndividual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $12,000 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INCHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherPRO PUBLICA INC — $9,000 · Other+16 more — $57,000 · Other+16 moreDC ABORTION FUND — $37,000 · Human ServicesDC ABORTION FUNDMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $31,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHENEMMA'S TORCH LTD — $8,170 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH LTDGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $8,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER BA…CONEXION AMERICAS — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $52,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KIT…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $28,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDA…MARTHA'S TABLE INC — $31,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABL…BREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $31,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE…Raising A Village Foundation — $23,000 · Community ImprovementTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL — $7,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $6,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 · HealthABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC — $4,000 · HealthTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Environment'SCONSET TRUST INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentThe Breakthrough Institute — $4,000 · Environment
Other$218,000Human Services$94,170International$80,000Food & Nutrition$62,000Community Improvement$23,000Health$22,500Environment$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $52,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDC ABORTION FUND — $37,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSOME INC — $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRaising A Village Foundation — $23,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD — $8,170 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINA ORTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCONEXION AMERICAS — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breakthrough Institute — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW COMMUMITY FOR CHILDREN INC — $4,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds DC ABORTION FUND
  • Who funds SOME INC
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Raising A Village Foundation
  • Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC
  • Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC
  • Who funds EMMA'S TORCH LTD
  • Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK
  • Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC
  • Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
  • Who funds THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER
  • Who funds MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC
  • Who funds CONEXION AMERICAS
  • Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds CLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds ABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC
  • Who funds The Breakthrough Institute
  • Who funds NEW COMMUMITY FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC

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.

Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Asher Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Asher Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Asher Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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