Texas · Private foundation
Ask Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $220k
- Granted FY2023
- 3
- Grants FY2023
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $48,769
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $166,667
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Total assets, FY2023
- $73k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Ask Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 3 | $220k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $206k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $343k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $494k | 76% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $691k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $851k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.
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, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charity Global Inc | $1,134,922 | 6 | 0% |
| Young Voices of Austin | $713,373 | 6 | 81% |
| The Nobelity Project | $250,143 | 3 | 13% |
| Andrew S Roddick Foundation Inc | $163,378 | 4 | 3% |
| Well Aware Inc | $39,943 | 5 | 2% |
| The Young People's Chorus of New York City Inc | $35,132 | 4 | 0% |
| Austin Theatre Alliance | $31,302 | 3 | 0% |
| Todos Juntos Learning Center | $27,427 | 4 | 3% |
| Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts | $26,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213 | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($293k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ask Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · United Way for Greater Austin · Topfer Family Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Tingari Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · Tides Foundation · The Long Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ask Charitable Foundation
- How much does Ask Charitable Foundation give?
- Ask Charitable Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $220,436 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Ask Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Arts & Culture (32%), Education (12%).
- Who are Ask Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Charity Global Inc ($1.1M), Young Voices of Austin ($713k), The Nobelity Project ($250k).
- Does Ask Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ask Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ask Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Better Business Bureau, United Way for Greater Austin.
- Where is Ask Charitable Foundation based?
- Ask Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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