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The Asher Family Foundation Inc

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.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$190kEducation$51kHealth$49kReligion$40kRecreation & Sports$3kPhilanthropy$1kAnimals$200Food & Nutrition$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$249k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Education in MediaInc$50,900
Bobby Nichols- Fiddlesticks foundat$7,500
A Bridge to a Cure Foundation Inc$5,000
Jewish Journal of Greater Boston$1,800
Collaboratory form SW Fl Com Fd$1,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Only You Foundation: $100 → 9%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.

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.
$279k · 11 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$279k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-25%

Still filing today

45%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +19%
  • BT
    BRIDGE TO A CURE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +77%
  • AO
    AL OERTER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • JE
    Jewish Education in MediaINC
    one grant, 2023 · $43k
  • UF
    USGA Fl State Golf Assoc
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • AB
    AF BEST SECURITIES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500

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
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County Ny Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of suffolk county, ny creates life changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

2
American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc

The american friends of beit issie shapiro (afobis) is a national not for profit fundraising organization with regional offices in new york city, north miami beach, fl and los angeles, ca. afobis is dedicated to supporting beit issie…

Human Services
3
Jewish News Service Inc

See schedule ojewish news service, inc. ("jns") was organized as a non-profit corporation under the general laws of massachusetts and is an independent business resource and syndication service covering jewish news and israel news for…

Education
4
Jgs Lifecare Corporation

Non-profit organization dedicated to improving the physical, spiritual and emotional health of individuals and families.

Health
5
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
6
Jgs Administrative Services Inc

To provide administrative support to jgs lifecare corporation.

Health
7
Jewish Food Society Inc

Jewish food society works to preserve and celebrate jewish culinary heritage from around the world in order to increase awareness and deepen connections to jewish life. jfs is committed to showcasing the diversity of the jewish experience,…

Arts & Culture
8
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
9
Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation

To provide needed food, shelter, clothing, medicine and educational scholarships.

Human Services
10
Pure Imagination Charity

Encouraging generous children to form lifelong friendships with other children who are chronically or terminally ill by sharing experiences. allowing these children to escape hospitals, protocols, intense scheduling and difficult daily…

Human Services
11
Chelsea Jewish North Shore Assisted Living Inc

To enrich the life of each of our residents and program participants so that each may continue to live his or her life with a sense of meaning and purpose. we provide assisted living units for our tenants.

Housing & Shelter
12
Margaux's Miracle Foundation Inc

The organization provides funds to assist in children's cancer research.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The Greenwich Jewish Study Group 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $145,325 · Arts & CultureJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROA…+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureJewish Education in MediaINC — $42,500 · OtherJewish Education in MediaINCTEMPLE EMANU-EL — $32,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELBobby Nichols-Fiddlesticks Found — $29,760 · OtherBobby Nichols-Fiddlesticks FoundThe Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc — $7,500 · OtherThe Greenwich Jewish Study Group IncBobby Nichols- Fiddlesticks foundat — $7,500 · OtherBobby Nichols- Fiddlesticks foundatJewish Journal of Greater Boston — $5,400 · Other+12 more — $14,350 · Other+12 moreBRIDGE TO A CURE FOUNDATION INC — $48,000 · HealthBRIDGE TO A CURE…SPUR INC — $100 · PhilanthropyONLY YOU FOUNDATION INC — $100 · Human ServicesMARBLEHEAD FOOD PANTRY INC — $100 · Food & NutritionOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $100 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$147,325Other$139,010Health$48,000Philanthropy$100Human Services$100Food & Nutrition$100Housing & Shelter$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $145,325 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetBRIDGE TO A CURE FOUNDATION INC — $48,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetThe Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetAL OERTER FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONLY YOU FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARBLEHEAD FOOD PANTRY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA6.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 The Asher Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 15%
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc15% of income from government
  • Spur Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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How do I get to The Asher Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Asher Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 25 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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