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Ashland Foundation

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.

$180k
Granted FY2023
119
Grants FY2023
15
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$964kHealth$74kHuman Services$60kEducation$50kEnvironment$29kAnimals$29kReligion$29kArts & Culture$27kOther$0
02FY2023 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 119 grants below total $142,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $180,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $37,600 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$500
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Worship Center$7,500
Special Olympics PA$7,500
Service Dogs of Virginia, Inc$5,500
Mennonite Disaster Service$5,000
UDS Service Dogs$5,000
Greystone Manor Therapeutic Riding Center$5,000
Bucknell University$5,000
Patriot Paws Service Dogs$5,000
Shippensburg University Foundation$3,500
Pennsylvania Canine Search and Rescue$3,500
Pet Pantry of Lancaster County$3,000
Calvary Church Preschool$3,000
AAFP Foundation$3,000
Factory Ministries$3,000
Fulton Theater$2,500
02Your 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$358k · 115 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

115 repeat relationships — 104 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
30

Total granted

$358k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+24%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationAnimalsOther

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 WILDLIFE FUND INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +28%
  • Bucknell University
    3× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +28%
  • PP
    PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS
    3× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • MA
    MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +15%
  • SP
    St. Phillip the Apostle Church
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • CV
    Conestoga Valley Youth Soccer Club
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +9%

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

03Your 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.

1
Lancaster General Health Foundation

The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…

Philanthropy
2
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
3
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
4
Lancaster General Health

Provides managerial and financial support to its controlled organizations and is also responsible for undertaking activities designed to advance the general health of the community.

Health
5
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry

The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the chamber has 5 strategic priorities: public policy, workforce, business…

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6
Adamstown Area Library

The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…

Education
7
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
8
Lancaster Country Day School

The mission of lancaster country day school is to empower students to explore their passions, find purpose, and become the best versions of themselves.

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
11
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
12
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health America of Lancaster County and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens 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 Sports ProgramsChildhood Cancer SupportDomestic Violence and Sexua…Developmental Disabilities …Local History MuseumsAddiction & Mental Health T…Government Accountability &…Community Hospital SystemsEarly Childhood Care CentersYmca Community CentersCommunity Literacy TutoringClassical Music OrchestrasYouth Development CentersHospice and Palliative CareChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Food Pantries and AssistancePublic Library SupportCollege Foundation SupportChristian Outreach Ministri…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & RescueEnvironmental Advocacy and …
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 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr17%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr15%39%35–55yr17%25%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/100
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,062

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.

03the grantee network

94 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. 94 of the 161 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/94
Grantees still filing
70/94
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $13,250 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INCCalvary Church Preschool — $10,000 · OtherWORSHIP CENTER INC — $8,320 · OtherTHE FACTORY MINISTRIES — $8,750 · Other+102 more — $170,748 · Other+102 morePATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $14,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PAWS SER…SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC — $10,900 · Human ServicesSERVICE DOGS OF …SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS — $5,600 · Human ServicesSCHUYLKILL WOMEN…CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $4,300 · Human ServicesCONESTOGA VALLEY…CHOICES HEALTHCARE — $3,750 · Human ServicesCHOICES HEALTHCA…POWER PACKS PROJECT — $3,350 · Human ServicesPOWER PACKS PROJ…WATER STREET MINISTRIES — $3,200 · Human ServicesWATER STREET MIN…CASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES — $3,000 · Human ServicesMILAGRO HOUSE INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesLANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER — $2,000 · Human Services+6 more — $5,250 · Human Services+6 moreLANCASTER COUNTY THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC D/B/A GREYSTONE MANOR THERAPEUTIC RIDING — $11,000 · HealthLANCASTER CO…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FDN — $9,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACA…TRANSPLANT HOUSE — $6,500 · HealthTRANSPLANT H…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,750 · HealthPARKINSON'S …ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $3,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALT…+7 more — $5,125 · Health+7 moreBucknell University — $15,000 · EducationSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $6,100 · EducationLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY — $2,650 · EducationLANCASTER COUNTY CAREER & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EducationTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION — $1,400 · Education+2 more — $850 · EducationWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $17,300 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EnvironmentTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $2,250 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $1,500 · Environment+3 more — $550 · EnvironmentPET PANTRY OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC — $7,000 · AnimalsFORGOTTEN FRIEND INC — $4,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $2,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $1,950 · AnimalsCENTERVILLE PET RESCUE — $1,000 · Animals+2 more — $800 · AnimalsTRAIN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION — $8,500 · Recreation & SportsLANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES — $1,150 · Recreation & SportsConestoga Valley Youth Soccer Club — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $400 · Recreation & Sports
Other$211,068Human Services$58,350Health$43,875Education$28,500Environment$25,600Animals$16,750Recreation & Sports$11,050

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 WILDLIFE FUND INC — $17,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $13,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC D/B/A GREYSTONE MANOR THERAPEUTIC RIDING — $11,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC — $10,900 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FDN — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FACTORY MINISTRIES — $8,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRAIN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION — $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPET PANTRY OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRANSPLANT HOUSE — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $6,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONCORPS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER CITY POLICE FOUNDATION — $5,900 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS — $5,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $4,300 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN FRIEND INC — $4,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE — $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER PACKS PROJECT — $3,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES — $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTRASBURG-HEISLER LIBRARY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY — $2,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CAREER & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES — $2,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $1,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE2SCHOOL — $1,850 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN MEDICAL & DENTAL ASSOCIAT — $1,800 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLONGWOOD GARDENS INC — $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC — $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHI ST JOSEPH CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $1,500 over 3y, 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.

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.

Lancaster County Comm…Clark Associates Char…The Steinman Foundati…High FoundationGooding Group Foundat…Willis and Elsie Shen…Ppl FoundationRichard S & Ann B Bar…United Way of Lancast…Touchstone Foundation…The Abigail L Longene…Universal Leaf Founda…
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA76.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · Gooding Group Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn · United Way of Lancaster County · Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organization · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Universal Leaf 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ashland Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ashland Foundation 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 161 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $180k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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