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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$445kEnvironment$165kHealth$56kReligion$40kHuman Services$30kEducation$13kCommunity Improvement$6kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $197k
$6,700
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Texas at Austin$100,000
Smithsonian Institution$97,000
Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh Fd$20,000
St Joseph's Church$20,000
Ronald McDonald House$10,000
Shriners Hospital for Children$10,000
Monsignor Kelly Catholic High Schoo$6,700
Healthnetwork Foundation$5,000
Holy Family Parish$3,000
Exotic Wildlife Association$1,500
Holy Family Catholic School$1,000
Pregnancy Help Center Galveston$1,000
Friends of Our Lady Queen of Africa$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Healthnetwork Foundation: $10k → 17%Healthnetwork Foundation: $5k → 17%Catholic Charities of Southeast Tex: $2k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
OR
OH
PA
AZ
DC
TX
FL

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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$720k · 12 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$720k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+38%

Still filing today

42%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $252k · revenue +34%
  • TS
    THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +26%
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BEAUMONT INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $110k
  • DS
    Dominican Sisters Mary Immaculate P
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • LU
    Lamar University Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -50%

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.

1
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
3
HealthTexas Provider Network

To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
4
Scott & White Memorial Hospital

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Willis-Knighton Medical Center

To continuously improve the health and well-being of the people we serve.

Health
6
Scott & White Clinic

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Memorial Hermann Health System

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
8
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
9
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Genetic Resource Association of Texas
Health
11
Baylor Health Care System Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
12
Natural Womanhood

Natural womanhood's mission is to empower free, confident, and connected women who embrace their fertility as beatiful, powerful, and healthy. natural womanhood is the online magazine of fertility awareness and women's health, reaching…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Beaumont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Texas at Austin — $192,500 · OtherUniversity of Texas at AustinIndividual grant recipient — $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGuanacaste Dry Forest Foundation — $100,000 · OtherGuanacaste Dry Forest FoundationGuanacaste Dry Forest Conservation — $65,000 · OtherGuanacaste Dry Forest ConservationST JOSEPHS CHURCH — $33,400 · OtherST JOSEPHS CHURCHRonald McDonald House — $27,000 · OtherChildrens Hospital of Pittsburgh Fd — $20,000 · Other+8 more — $20,500 · OtherSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $252,100 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $20,500 · HealthHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Southeast Texas — $1,500 · Human ServicesJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BEAUMONT INC — $5,500 · Community ImprovementLamar University Foundation Inc — $2,500 · EducationPREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF GALVESTON INC — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$568,400Arts & Culture$252,600Health$20,500Human Services$16,500Community Improvement$5,500Education$2,500Philanthropy$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BEAUMONT INC
  • Who funds Lamar University Foundation Inc
  • Who funds PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF GALVESTON INC
  • Who funds EXOTIC WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas
  • Who funds The Art Studio 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.

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

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 Rita and Richard C Ashley Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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