Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Ashurst 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.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 85%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,247,060
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,247,060
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 75
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 85% of the organizations The Ashurst Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $755k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $3.2M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $961k | 85% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $923k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $1.1M | 49% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $988k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 53 | $933k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $861k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 75 | $849k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Brookings Institution | $600,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Urban Institute | $600,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities | $155,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $153,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Atlantic Council of the United States Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Women's Refugee Commission Inc | $147,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Global Newborn Solutions Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 79% |
| Consumer Reports Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ashurst Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Sullivan Family Foundation · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Barr Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc
How this is measured
About The Ashurst Foundation
- How much does The Ashurst Foundation give?
- The Ashurst Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $3,247,060 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 75 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ashurst Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), Education (15%), Social Science (12%).
- Who are The Ashurst Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Brookings Institution ($600k), The Urban Institute ($600k), Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities ($155k).
- Does The Ashurst Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 85% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ashurst 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 The Ashurst Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Sullivan Family Foundation.
- Where is The Ashurst Foundation based?
- The Ashurst Foundation is based in MA.
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