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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,495 to it, the largest being BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$274k
Net assets
$28M
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What American Society of Heating Refrigerating and A-C Engineers Fdn does

Mission

For the support and benefit of and to further the charitable purposes of the american society of heating, refrigerating and air-conditioning engineers, inc. (ashrae, inc.)

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To give awards to people who have made contributions of their enlightened knowledge in the hvac field. To give scholarships to students of excellence in the hvac field.

    $867,803 spentof which $867,803 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $867,803.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($823k) Net assets 100 ($15M)2020 Revenue 132 ($1.4M) Expenses 67 ($552k) Net assets 101 ($15M)2021 Revenue 264 ($2.9M) Expenses 73 ($603k) Net assets 128 ($19M)2022 Revenue 145 ($1.6M) Expenses 66 ($546k) Net assets 120 ($18M)2023 Revenue 197 ($2.2M) Expenses 72 ($591k) Net assets 131 ($20M)2024 Revenue 502 ($5.5M) Expenses 78 ($643k) Net assets 157 ($24M)2025 Revenue 343 ($3.7M) Expenses 114 ($938k) Net assets 186 ($28M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (343)Expenses (114)Net assets (186)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $24M to $28M (+19%).

$16M
$16M
$20M
$18M
$20M
$24M
$28M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$270k
’19
$892k
’20
$2.3M
’21
$1.0M
’22
$1.6M
’23
$4.8M
’24
$2.8M
’25
10
months of
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

T Randall Jones

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed19202019192019
Joined·+4+3+1+3+1+1
No longer listed·332302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $25k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN’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

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN.

36%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 92% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

93% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states.

CA
UT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN

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In Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 39 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Society of Heating Refrigerating and A-C Engineers Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN?
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,495 to it, the largest being BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $274,495 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN?
BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING REFRIGERATING AND A-C ENGINEERS FDN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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