· Private foundation
Tim and Libby Ash Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $600k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RESCUE MISSION | $325,000 |
| WORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY | $225,000 |
| BRIDGE OF GRACE | $200,000 |
| THE IMPACT CENTER | $100,000 |
| AURORA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (DBA ADAMS-ARAPAHOE SCHOOL DISTRICT 28J | $75,000 |
| LOVE FORT WAYNE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NEW MERCIES MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER | $3,800 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,600 |
| IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER FORMERLY SCAN INC | $2,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $657k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Tim and Libby Ash Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $552k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WBWORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $761k · revenue +48%
- UPUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $660k · revenue +64% · 42% of their budget
- BOBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC4× · 2017–2024 · $620k · revenue +376%
Funded once
- STSPECIALTY TUTORING INCone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -43%
- ACALIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +196%
- PCPATHWAY COMMUNITY CHURCH- HOPE BUILDERSone grant, 2018 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Mackinaw Area Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 88 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY TUTORING INC ↗
- Who funds Erins House for Grieving Children Inc ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Love Fort Wayne Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Taylor University Broadcasting Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds TROY Center Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Crosswinds Inc ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds NEW MERCIES MINISTRIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Parkview Health System Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation · M E Raker Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tim and Libby Ash Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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