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Mary Frost Ashley Charitable Trust at a glance

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Mary Frost Ashley Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$787k
Granted FY2026still arriving
9
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$3.0MHuman Services$730kArts & Culture$246kPhilanthropy$155kHealth$134kRecreation & Sports$114kReligion$50kHousing & Shelter$35kOther$0
02FY2026 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$600,000
HEALTH DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (HDI)$100,000
KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$35,000
YMCA$30,000
SHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK$5,000
KENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL$5,000
KENOSHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
PEACE LEARNING CIRCLES INC$5,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN$2,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%KENOSHA CHRISTMAS CHARITIES INC: $5k → 10%KENOSHA CHRISTMAS CHARITIES INC: $5k → 10%HOSPICE ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 10%HOSPICE ALLIANCE INC: $20k → 10%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $50k → 10%WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $40k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $20k → 10%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $15k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $15k → 10%WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 20 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$4.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+24%

Still filing today

50%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • KY
    KENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $510k · revenue +62%
  • UNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +8%
  • HA
    HOSPICE ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CS
    CALLAHAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $600k
  • MA
    MATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue ×34
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE
    one grant, 2019 · $59k
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.

1
Kenosha Co Archaeological Society
Arts & Culture
2
Kenosha Montessori School Inc

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…

Education
3
Kenosha Area Business Alliance Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
4
Kenosha Christian Academy

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.

Education
5
Kenosha County Historical Society Inc Kenosha History Center

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.

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6
Kenosha Community Health Center Inc

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…

Health
7
Boys and Girls Club of Kenosha Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
8
Kenosha Human Development Services 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…

Human Services
9
Kenosha Education Association

None

Employment
10
Kma Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
11
Habitat for Humanity of Kenosha Inc

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…

—
12
Walkin in My Shoes Inc

Provide survival backpack and assistance to the unsheltered homeless men, women, and children in kenosha county

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Kenosha County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 41 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $2,425,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINCALLAHAN SCHOOL: $600,000 · OtherCALLAHAN SCHOOLKenosha Creative Space Inc: $195,000 · OtherKENOSHA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #1: $189,000 · Other+20 more: $567,037 · Other+20 moreKENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $510,000 · Recreation & SportsKENOSHA YOU…KENOSHA BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsKENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $320,000 · EducationKENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL: $29,560 · EducationCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $65,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesKENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesKENOSHA CHRISTMAS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $130,000 · PhilanthropyKENOSHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,500 · PhilanthropyBRIDGES OF BELONGING INC: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentKenosha Symphony Association Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,976,037Recreation & Sports$535,000Education$374,560Human Services$280,000Philanthropy$159,500Housing & Shelter$35,000Youth Development$19,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $510,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetKENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $320,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $130,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $65,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHOSPICE ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGES OF BELONGING INC: $35,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUERS OF KENOSHA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetKENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL: $29,560 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetKENOSHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKENOSHA BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKenosha Symphony Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetKENOSHA CHRISTMAS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPRO-KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetKENOSHA BAND BOOSTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 51% of budget
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.

  • 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENOSHA BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds Kenosha Symphony Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds KENOSHA CHRISTMAS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO-KIDS INC ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationJohn & Ruth Kloss Cha…1335 FoundationKenosha Community Fou…The Richard M Schulze…United Way of Kenosha…Trustmark FoundationGreater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Baxter International …The Blackbaud Giving …
AbbVie FoundationIL26.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary Frost Ashley Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Frost Ashley Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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