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Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation

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.

$276k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
58%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,700
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$3.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$276k31%
FY202412$127k58%
FY20238$145k75%
FY20222$64k50%
FY20212$111k100%
FY20201$50k0%
FY20192$60k50%
FY20181$5000%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$445kEnvironment$165kHealth$56kReligion$40kHuman Services$30kEducation$13kCommunity Improvement$6kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
OR
OH
PA
AZ
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Smithsonian Institution$252,10060%
St Josephs Church$33,4003n/a
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$20,50030%
Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc$15,00020%
Holy Family Parish$6,0002n/a
Junior League of Beaumont Inc$5,50022%
Lamar University Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Pregnancy Help Center of Galveston Inc$2,00020%
Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas$1,50010%
Exotic Wildlife Association$1,5001n/a
Holy Family Catholic School$1,2002n/a
Friends of Our Lady Queen of Africa$1,0001n/a
The Art Studio Inc$50011%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($525k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSmithsonian Institution: $252,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJunior League of Beaumont Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPregnancy Help Center of Galveston Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Southeast Texas: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Art Studio Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation

How much does Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation give?
Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $276,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Environment (19%), Health (6%).
Who are Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Smithsonian Institution ($252k), St Josephs Church ($33k), The Shriners' Hospital for Children ($21k).
Does Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation based?
Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation is based in TX.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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