California · Private foundation
Asher Student Foundation
TO SERVE THE CAUSE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BY PROVIDING HOUSING AND SERVICES TO STUDENTS WHO ARE CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS ENROLLED IN ACCREDITED COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES - OR WHO ARE RECENT GRADUATES. Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited…
- $481k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $86,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 28
- Total assets, FY2025
- $61M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Asher Student Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k 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 | 72 | $481k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $532k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $296k | 85% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $370k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $174k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $287k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $249k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $249k | 88% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventure Unlimited | $182,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Longyear Foundation | $97,788 | 3 | 1% |
| Crystal Lake Camps Inc | $93,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Friends of Camp Bow-Isle | $73,000 | 4 | 13% |
| The Cedars Camps Inc | $68,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Principle Foundation | $44,827 | 4 | 1% |
| Northeastern University | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cherishability | $39,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Rollins College | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 113 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Asher Student Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Isabel Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Powell Crown Foundation · Towle Family Foundation · The Campership Fund · The Daycroft School Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Tiny Tiger Foundation · James W Garvey Family Charitable Trust · Spaulding Family Foundation · Annie Foundation · The Head Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Asher Student Foundation
- How much does Asher Student Foundation give?
- Asher Student Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $481,327 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Asher Student Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (39%), Housing & Shelter (32%), Education (11%).
- Who are Asher Student Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Adventure Unlimited ($182k), Longyear Foundation ($98k), Crystal Lake Camps Inc ($93k).
- Does Asher Student Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Asher Student Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Asher Student Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Isabel Foundation, Tenacre Foundation, Powell Crown Foundation.
- Where is Asher Student Foundation based?
- Asher Student Foundation is based in CA.
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