Kansas · Community foundation
Ashland Community Foundation
To improve the quality of life in the ashland area, through, but not limited to the promotion, encouragement and support of education, health and well-being of families & individuals, preservation of nature, history, and the promotion of recreational & cultural programs and activities.
- $195k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $181k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $57,884
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $882k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Ashland Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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 | 6 | $181k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $332k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $311k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $167k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $101k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $97k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $52k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $802k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashland Library | $371,981 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Ashland | $353,944 | 4 | n/a |
| Ashland 2020 Inc | $223,570 | 5 | 30% |
| Usd #220 | $124,922 | 7 | n/a |
| Giles Ranch Company LLC | $107,609 | 1 | n/a |
| Clark County Fair Association | $104,384 | 2 | n/a |
| Ashland Senior Citizens Center Inc | $102,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Ashland Golf Course | $101,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Gardiner Angus Ranch Inc | $91,788 | 2 | n/a |
| M & G Gardiner LLC | $72,248 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashland Library | $371,981 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Ashland | $353,944 | 4 | n/a |
| Ashland 2020 Inc | $223,570 | 5 | 30% |
| Usd #220 | $124,922 | 7 | n/a |
| Giles Ranch Company LLC | $107,609 | 1 | n/a |
| Clark County Fair Association | $104,384 | 2 | n/a |
| Ashland Senior Citizens Center Inc | $102,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Ashland Golf Course | $101,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Gardiner Angus Ranch Inc | $91,788 | 2 | n/a |
| M & G Gardiner LLC | $72,248 | 2 | n/a |
| Tscra Disaster Relief Fund | $63,040 | 1 | 2% |
| Paradise United Methodist Church | $50,278 | 1 | n/a |
| Bouziden Walker Farms | $50,012 | 2 | n/a |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Kansas | $36,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Young Brother Cattle Co | $29,676 | 1 | n/a |
| 6M Land & Cattle LLC | $28,320 | 1 | n/a |
| Wepac Alliance Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 39% |
| Giles Ranch Land LLC | $24,103 | 2 | n/a |
| The Dodge City Community College Foundation | $22,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Gqh Inc | $21,240 | 1 | n/a |
| Ashland Food Pantry | $20,550 | 2 | n/a |
| Clawson Ranch Partnership | $20,318 | 1 | n/a |
| Tri Bar M Ranch | $19,655 | 1 | n/a |
| Giles Land Company LLC | $18,204 | 2 | n/a |
| Clark County Extension | $16,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Cattlemen's Foundation Inc | $16,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kirk Ranch | $14,960 | 1 | n/a |
| Goodnight Ranch Co | $14,432 | 1 | n/a |
| Swayze Farms | $14,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Arnold Ranch Inc | $12,394 | 1 | n/a |
| CK Ranch & Farms LLC | $12,340 | 1 | n/a |
| Rms Cattle LLC | $11,176 | 1 | n/a |
| Snake Creek Ranch Co | $10,202 | 1 | n/a |
| Nebraska Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ashland Christian Service Camp | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beaver Ministerial Fellowship | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denton Ranch Inc | $8,260 | 1 | n/a |
| Hands Enterprises LLC | $6,865 | 1 | n/a |
| Walker Farms & Cattle | $6,684 | 1 | n/a |
| Stephens Ranch | $6,424 | 1 | n/a |
| Filson Farms Inc | $6,074 | 1 | n/a |
| Mtprc Ltp | $5,956 | 1 | n/a |
| Sparkwheel Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Montana Stockgrowers Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($523k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ashland Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Ashland Community Foundation
- How much does Ashland Community Foundation give?
- Ashland Community Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $180,533, out of $194,664 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ashland Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (34%), Health (21%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are Ashland Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ashland Library ($372k), City of Ashland ($354k), Ashland 2020 Inc ($224k).
- Does Ashland Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ashland Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kansas Livestock Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ashland Community Foundation based?
- Ashland Community Foundation is based in KS.
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