Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH
ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,193,730 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($487,649). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $589k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Action on Smoking and Health does
Mission
To advocate for innovative legal and policy measures to end the global tobacco epidemic.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Public education - ash strives to raise public awareness on the risks associated with tobacco and engages in global campaigns for the prevention of tobacco-related damages. Ash is also actively involved in promoting public awareness on trade policies involving tobacco, on actions of the tobacco industry, and on poverty and human rights issues linked to tobacco use. Ash wants to make the public cognizant of their rights and their legal protections through the media, newsletters, and direct mail. Ash continues to develop new, effective ways to leverage their experience, expertise, and leadership of the tobacco-free movement to counter the power and influence of the global tobacco industry.
$1,072,859 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,072,859.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.7M to $4.9M (−26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 2% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Laurent Huber
Executive director
Board chair
Doug Blanke
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $138k → $145k.
9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 71% · 2019 55% · 2020 54% · 2021 32% · 2022 78% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $149k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH?
- ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,193,730 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($487,649). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,193,730 in grants to ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $487,649 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing