Texas · Private foundation
The Hg Ash 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.
- $257k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $56,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Hg Ash Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $253k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $197k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $190k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $218k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $248k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $221k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $332k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $2.3M | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M Foundation | $2,011,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation | $360,030 | 9 | 0% |
| The Hobby Center Foundation | $268,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $174,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Stoney Creek Foundation | $171,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Houston Tennis Association Inc | $128,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Turn It Gold | $66,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Cancare Inc | $64,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Country Playhouse | $56,750 | 8 | 1% |
| Spartan Booster Club | $47,650 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($651k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hg Ash Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · L E Foundation Trust · Midway Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · The Looper Foundation · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About The Hg Ash Foundation
- How much does The Hg Ash Foundation give?
- The Hg Ash Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $256,610 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hg Ash Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Hg Ash Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas A&M Foundation ($2.0M), Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ($360k), The Hobby Center Foundation ($269k).
- Does The Hg Ash Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hg Ash 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 Hg Ash Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is The Hg Ash Foundation based?
- The Hg Ash Foundation is based in TX.
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