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The Ashton Foundation at a glance

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The Ashton Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2026still arriving
6
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$37kArts & Culture$33kEducation$12kYouth Development$7kHousing & Shelter$4kPhilanthropy$3kCommunity Improvement$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$15,000
HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
PB ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY - WOMEN OF DISTINCTION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$5,000
ST PAUL CATHEDRAL TRUST OF AMERICA$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 13 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
19

Total granted

$118k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+29%

Still filing today

62%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • TS
    The Society of the Four Arts Inc
    4× · 2022–2026 · $36k · revenue +585%
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL TRUST IN AMERICA
    2× · 2025–2026 · $10k · revenue +264%
  • TO
    Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • BP
    BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -7%
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
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
2
Phelps Memorial Hospital Association

Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
3
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
4
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
5
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
6
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
7
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
8
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
9
Hospice Care Network

Our mission is to enable persons to live with peace and dignity in a caring environment during the final stages of life by offering care and comfort to both them and to those whom they share their lives.

Human Services
10
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
11
Huntington Hospital Association

Huntington hospital association's ("hospital") mission is to provide a full range of inpatient, outpatient and specialized healthcare services, regardless of a patient's ability to pay, within an environment nurtured by respect and safety.…

Health
12
Staten Island University Hospital

Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Society of the Four Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook 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

18 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. 18 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $11,840 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAYALE UNIVERSITY: $10,100 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYPB ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY - WOMEN OF DISTINCTION: $5,000 · OtherPB ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY - WOMEN OF DISTINCTIONBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION: $3,000 · Other+14 more: $7,620 · Other+14 moreThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $36,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts IncST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL TRUST IN AMERICA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL TRUST IN AMERICATHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $600 · Arts & CulturePATHWAYS INC: $1,750 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $650 · HealthGLEN COVE HOSPITAL: $500 · HealthVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $500 · HealthTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $750 · Community Improvement
Other$87,560Arts & Culture$49,100Health$3,400Philanthropy$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,000Human Services$1,000Community Improvement$750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $36,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN COVE HOSPITAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ashton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ashton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • Pathways Inc: 45% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 34 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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The camps
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By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home