· Private foundation
Mary Frost Ashley Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
- $250k+1 grant · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN | $625,000 |
| KENOSHA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 | $64,000 |
| KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| KENOSHA YMCA | $35,000 |
| KENOSHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| KENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| YOUNG ARTIST PERFORMANCES | $5,000 |
| KENOSHA CHRISTMAS CHARITIES INC | $5,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KYKENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $510k · revenue +60%
UNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC3× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +8%- HAHOSPICE ALLIANCE INC2× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CSCALLAHAN SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $600k
- MAMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue ×34
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDEone grant, 2019 · $59k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Kenosha montessori school strives to provide an atmosphere that encourages learning for life, a peaceful community, independence, curiosity, & creativy following the montessori method. kms serves the communities of southeast wisconsin and…
Kenosha christian academy is a private school that will provide a classical christian education to the children of kenosha's central city neighborhoods, in hopes of forming students, families, and staff who love god and neighbor.
Kenosha area business alliance foundation, inc. develops education initiatives with local kenosha schools to increase graduation rates, improve the overall quality of education, and foster the best educational system in the state.
To collect and preserve artifacts, records, and information vital to understanding the history of the County's social, cultural, ethic and industrial heritage since its settlement.
Kenosha community health center, inc.'s purpose is to provide primary care and referral health services to disadvantaged and underserved populations and promote and ensure that basic primary health services are accessible to uninsured and…
The foundation is organized for the charitable purpose of advancing the long-range goals, objectives, and priorities of the boys and girls club of kenosha, inc.
To provide public, individual, and group care for anyone living in the greater kenosha area. care shall be in the least restrictive manner and will include group type treatment facilities, as well as other services to help people in need…
None
To witness and implement the gospel of jesus christ in kenosha county, wisconsin, and throughout the united states and the world by working with economically disadvantaged people to help them create a better human habitat in which to live…
Provide survival backpack and assistance to the unsheltered homeless men, women, and children in kenosha county
The kma foundation, inc. shall provide philanthropic leadership to make lives better and communities stronger by supporting a broad spectrum of charitable organizations in the greater southern wisconsin area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Kenosha County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridges of Belonging Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds KENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kenosha Creative Space Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ELCA OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF BELONGING INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUERS OF KENOSHA INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA CHRISTMAS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRO-KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Kenosha Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma · 1335 Foundation · Kenosha Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · United Way of Kenosha County Inc · Trustmark Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baxter International Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 organization Mary Frost Ashley Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 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.