· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS | $12,000 |
| CAMPS NEWFOUND & OWATONNA | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CAMP BOW-ISLE | $12,000 |
| CEDARS CAMPS | $12,000 |
| AU DB FOUNDATION | $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 |
| CDC OXFORD LLC | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 52% of Asher Student Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUADVENTURE UNLIMITED2× · 2017–2021 · $182k · revenue +122%
LONGYEAR FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $98k · revenue +126%- 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Asher Student Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asher Student Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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