How much does Ausherman Family Foundation give?

Ausherman Family Foundation reported 98 grants totaling $698,928 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 128 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ausherman Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Health (15%), Human Services (11%).

Who are Ausherman Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Frederick Arts Council Inc ($538k), Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc ($354k), Mission of Mercy Inc ($315k).

Does Ausherman Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ausherman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ausherman Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaplaine Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc, Ausherman Family Trust.

Where is Ausherman Family Foundation based?

Ausherman Family Foundation is based in MD.

Ausherman Family Foundation

Ausherman Family Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Ausherman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$699k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$802kCommunity Improvement$570kPhilanthropy$561kEducation$525kReligion$354kHousing & Shelter$345kOther$0

02FY2024 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k76 grants · $183k
$10k–50k19 grants · $335k
$50k–250k3 grants · $181k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$23M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
L'ARCHE FREDERICK MARYLAND INC	$75,000
SPECTRUM SUPPORT INC	$55,000
THE FREDERICK CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC	$51,000
CENTRO HISPANO DE FREDERICK	$45,480
WOMEN SOLVE	$30,000
Individual grant recipient	$27,000
MARYLAND DEAF COMMUNITY CENTER	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$21,475
FREDERICK ARTS COUNCIL INC	$20,000
DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP	$18,112
THE FREDERICK CENTER	$16,700
Individual grant recipient	$15,500
FREDERICK CLUB OF NAT'L ASSOC OF NEGRO BUSINESS & PROF WOMEN'S	$15,000
YMCA OF FREDERICK COUNTY	$13,250
SHIP OF FREDERICK COUNTY	$12,700

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $793k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.3M · 164 repeat orgs$983k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

164 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

164

157

Total granted

$6.3M

$858k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+13%

Still filing today

54%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TF
THE FREDERICK ARTS COUNCIL INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $538k · revenue +26%
DF
DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $354k · revenue +82%
MO
MISSION OF MERCY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +53%

Funded once

SJ
ST JOHN FREDERICK THE EVANGELIST
one grant, 2019 · $100k
ST
SET THE STAGE INC
one grant, 2018 · $100k
UW
UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK
one grant, 2019 · $89k

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.

04Its field

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.

Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health

Business Volunteers Maryland Inc

Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.

Community Improvement

First Maryland Disability Trust Inc

To enhance the quality of life, autonomy and dignity of marylanders with disabilities by offering cost effective trust services to protect, manage and use trust assets for beneficiaries while preserving eligibility for public and private…

Human Services

Frederick Health Inc

To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.

Health

University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health

Maryland Inclusive Housing Corporation

Maryland inclusive housing corporation's (mih) mission is to help people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (idd) successfully access and maintain inclusive, affordable, and accessible housing of their choice by…

Housing & Shelter

The Chamber of Commerce of Frederick County Inc

Connecting businesses and the community through leadership, advocacy and education.

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Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc

Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) is the only non-profit organization exclusively focused on providing free legal advocacy services to people with all types of disabilities, of all ages and in all settings, statewide.

Crime & Legal

Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment

Maryland New Directions Inc

Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.

Health

Moveable Feast Inc

Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…

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The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Frederick County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yogamour Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

177 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 177 of the 339 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

172/177

Grantees still filing

126/177

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,144,703Arts & Culture$1,003,687Human Services$787,215Health$385,600Community Improvement$358,907Philanthropy$337,366Education$281,422

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Delaplaine Foundation IncMD129.6× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaplaine Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · United Way of Frederick County Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc · Dr Henry P & M Page Durkee Laughlin Foundation Inc · Joseph D Baker Fund Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The George L Shields Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ausherman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ausherman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

39get no government money at all

53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

4rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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