Kansas · Nonprofit
Ad Astra Education Foundation
Ad Astra Education Foundation (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,546,452 to it, the largest being The Kansas University Endowment Association ($3,546,452). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $0
What Ad Astra Education Foundation does
Mission
The Ad Astra Education Foundation serves to advance education and equity by providing scholarships, fellowships and other forms of financial support to students, faculty and other academic staff at the university of kansas (university) from groups who historically have been underrepresented at the university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students attending the university of kansas from historically underrepresented groups.
$2,027,491 spentof which $2,027,491 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,027,491.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $24k to $10k (−57%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Jonathan Y Ng
Chair, director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $76k → $473k.
From the IRS filings of Ad Astra Education Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Ad Astra Education Foundation's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Ad Astra Education Foundation
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ad Astra Education Foundation: 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 Ad Astra Education Foundation?
- Ad Astra Education Foundation (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,546,452 to it, the largest being The Kansas University Endowment Association ($3,546,452). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ad Astra Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,546,452 in grants to Ad Astra Education Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ad Astra Education Foundation?
- The Kansas University Endowment Association is the largest funder on record, with $3,546,452 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ad Astra Education Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing