Does The Rafael Brenner Ashe Foundation James T Ashe Director accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Rafael Brenner Ashe Foundation James T Ashe Director?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Synchrony Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.

The Rafael Brenner Ashe Foundation James T Ashe Director

The Rafael Brenner Ashe Foundation James T Ashe Director at a glance

· Private foundation

The Rafael Brenner Ashe Foundation James T Ashe Director

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$48kHuman Services$28kRecreation & Sports$11kFood & Nutrition$2kInternational$2kEducation$1kYouth Development$309Other$0

02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$317k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE	$2,500
ELLIE'S ARMY FOUNDATION	$2,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NEW YORK	$1,500
CROHN'S & COLITIES FOUNDATION	$1,500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$1,500
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION	$1,000
SHRINER'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$1,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$1,000
DDI FOUNDATION	$1,000
MEMORIAL SOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$1,000
IGHL FOUNDATION	$1,000
THE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME	$1,000
AUTISM SPEAKS INC	$1,000
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF	$650
COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$81k · 33 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$81k

$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

-4%

Still filing today

48%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

FS
FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +21%
SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +44%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +99%

Funded once

FS
Family Service League of Bay Shore Fay J Lindner
one grant, 2021 · $6k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -25%
HS
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -4%

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.

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health

Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health

Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Newsday Charities 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

27 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. 27 of the 45 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/27

Grantees still filing

15/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$51,300Health$18,300Human Services$17,700Philanthropy$2,300International$1,750Food & Nutrition$500

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

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.

Synchrony FoundationCT12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Synchrony Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Rafael Brenner Ashe Foundation James T Ashe Director funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rafael Brenner Ashe Foundation James T Ashe Director. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home