· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k63 grants · $251k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHERISHABILITY (FORMERLY RAINBOW VALLEY RESOURCE NETWORK INC) | $86,000 |
| THE PRINCIPIA | $56,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| AU DB FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CAMP BOW-ISLE | $12,000 |
| CEDARS CAMPS | $12,000 |
| CAMPS NEWFOUND & OWATONNA | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LITERATURE JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $7,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM | $5,000 |
| STUDENT CO DAVID BOTTENFILED LANDLO | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $4,000 |
| STUDENT CO DONNA SPAHN LANDLORD | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 52% of Asher Student Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k 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
- AUADVENTURE UNLIMITED2× · 2017–2021 · $182k · revenue +122%
LONGYEAR FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $98k · revenue +22%- FOFRIENDS OF CAMP BOW-ISLE4× · 2022–2025 · $73k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $116k
- SCSERVICE CORPS PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut College and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Camp Bow-Isle. 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.
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 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 150 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 ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP BOW-ISLE ↗
- Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHERISHABILITY ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
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: 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
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 Student 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Simmons University — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
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.