How much did AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST grant in FY2024?

Human Services$1.0MPhilanthropy$477kHousing & Shelter$450kEducation$377kYouth Development$358kHealth$348kArts & Culture$280kPublic Safety & Disaster$165kCommunity Improvement$159kOther$2.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

arts

2019

totalingyouth matrixaccessscholarshipsartschildren

2020

covid emergencyseniorjointskillscritical covidparkheritage

2021

pandemicjobincomesetonguidanceemploymentwomen

2022

playgroundrespectstrategic planningguidancepowerlivesbuilding

2023

girlsdowntownpartners carehospice carechild sexualsexual abuserepair

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $90k
$10k–50k24 grants · $592k
$50k–250k8 grants · $601k

$18,750

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

CENTRO DE HISPANO DE FREDERICK$133,000
HEARTLY HOUSE$102,500
UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY$80,000
SOS SAFE RIDE$75,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICK$60,000
FREDERICK HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK$50,000
CITY YOUTH MATRIX CORP$50,000
SETON CENTER$48,250
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$45,000
LITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK$45,000
CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS$40,000
SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY$40,000
DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP$40,000
MISSION OF MERCY$30,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 8%. 1% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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

03Your 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.3M · 50 repeat orgs$614k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.3M

$537k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%

+41%

Still filing today

90%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC
3× · 2017–2023 · $287k · revenue +88%
HH
HEARTLY HOUSE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $253k · revenue +98%
FR
FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION
7× · 2018–2024 · $240k · revenue +57%

Funded once

SA
SOPHIE AND MADIGAN'S PLAYGROUND INC
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue 0% · 64% of their budget
P2
PLATOON 22 INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +83%
RC
RELIGIOUS COALITIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +92%

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

04Your 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.

Frederick Health Hospital Inc

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

Health

Garrett County Maryland Community

To improve the quality of life for people in need by empowering them to become more self-sufficient by providing essential services in collaboration and cooperation with other community based organizations.

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On Our Own of Frederick County Inc

Our mission is to promote recovery, wellness and peer support in an environment of advocacy, understanding and education to past or present recipients of mental health services and substance use disorder.

Human Services

Fredericksburg Hospice No 1

To provide care to terminally ill patients by treating their pain and symptoms and easing their emotional and spiritual suffering.

—

Frederick County Association of

The association provides and promotes realtors education and cooperation. it promotes consumer trust and confidence through the support of its members.

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Leadership Maryland Inc

Building a better maryland takes a special kind of strength-the kind of strength you'll find every day in leaders throughout our local businesses and communities. at leadership maryland, we harness that strength by bringing together local…

Public Benefit

Farm to School Frederick

To increase access to locally grown, highly nutritious food for all frederick, maryland residents. we aim to cultivate new markets for local farmers while enhancing awareness and understanding of the importance of food, nutrition, and…

Food & Nutrition

Delmarva Community Services Inc

To provide residential, vocational, respite, adult day care, senior, and transportation services to individuals with developmental disabilities.

Human Services

The Arc of Frederick County Inc

The arc of frederick county is an advocacy agency supporting people with developmental disabilities.

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The Chamber of Commerce of Frederick

An association of businesses organized to enhance the economic and social vitality of frederick county, maryland, by advocating and promoting the interests of business, sound government practices, and an informed membership and community.

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Frederick County Healthcare Coalition

Our mission is to improve wellness and resiliency to equitably impact the lifelong health of all frederick county residents.

Health

Maryland Lyric Opera

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Supporting Older Adults Through and the most unlike its peers is Young Life. 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.

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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/92

the rest of the field

11%

194/1,787

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.

05the grantee network

79 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/79

Grantees still filing

66/79

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,931,917Human Services$1,013,100Philanthropy$476,724Housing & Shelter$450,282Education$376,815Youth Development$358,250Health$347,539

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

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.

The Community Foundation of FrederickMD114.5× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Frederick · Ausherman Family Foundation · United Way of Frederick County Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main · The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc · Joseph D Baker Fund Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NEW SPIRE ARTS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463479474 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NEW SPIRE ARTS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ausherman Family Trust?

Find your warmest path to Ausherman Family Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

79 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ausherman Family Trust?

More from the funding graph

AUSHERMAN FAMILY TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

79 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ausherman Family Trust?

More from the funding graph