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The Ashurst Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.2MEducation$1.5MSocial Science$1.2MArts & Culture$1.0MInternational$501kHuman Services$491kHealth$201kScience & Tech$187kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,247,060
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$3,247,060
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 (FY17–22, $338k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $30k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $20k → 16%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150 → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $250 → 8%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $45k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $27k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $25k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $25k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $25k → 17%PINE STREET INN: $250 → 16%GLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS: $100k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
AR
DC
OK
MS
AL
FL
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.
$7.9M · 74 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

74 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
96

Total granted

$7.9M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+15%

Still filing today

46%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $600k · revenue +2%
  • THE URBAN INSTITUTE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $600k · revenue +51%
  • AI
    AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES
    4× · 2018–2021 · $155k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • NE
    NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • MC
    MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • NE
    NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY HAVERHILL
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. 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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 177 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/87
Grantees still filing
66/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND: $3,312,560 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUNDBUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500,020 · OtherBUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGESTOCKTON U FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $300,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $250,000 · Other+117 more: $2,739,092 · Other+117 moreTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $600,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS…THE URBAN INSTITUTE: $600,000 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN INS…+2 more: $7,980 · Social SciencePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $123,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $120,000 · EducationSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $90,000 · EducationNew College Foundation Inc: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+11 more: $36,668 · EducationAUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES: $155,000 · InternationalATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $150,000 · InternationalHEALTHRIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 · International+7 more: $19,250 · InternationalBoston Foundation Inc: $203,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $60,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswell Fund: $15,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $147,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $80,000 · Human Services+3 more: $10,650 · Human ServicesTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $153,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMASSPOETRY INC: $14,860 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $11,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,401,672Social Science$1,207,980Education$489,668International$354,250Philanthropy$349,500Human Services$337,650Arts & Culture$219,360

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 BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $600,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $600,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $203,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES: $155,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $153,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $147,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $123,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $101,732 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew College Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $32,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVUS OUTREACH INC: $30,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Mennonite University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARK SLOPE CHILD CARE COLLECTIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMASSPOETRY INC: $14,860 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetThe Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $7,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTENACITY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $4,168 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Sullivan Family Found…Justin & Genevieve Wy…Martha's Vineyard Ban…The Cabot Family Char…Massachusetts Foundat…Eastern Bank Foundati…Barr FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Associated Jewish Cha…The Community Foundat…
Boston Foundation IncMA18.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ashurst Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ashurst Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • National Bureau of Economic Research Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Museum of African American History Inc: 43% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Community Resources for Justice Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Boston Book Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Mvyradio Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 177 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home