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ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC
ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,406 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL AND GENEVIEVE RATNER FOUNDATION ($110,353). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Asah - Serving the Private Special Education Community Since 1974 Inc does
Mission
Asah is a not-for-profit organization of new jersey state-approved specialized schools serving over 10,000 students with severe complex disabilities. Asah provides information, referrals, and advocacy; produces publications; conducts an annual ouctomes analsyis and other studies to ensure quality of services; hosts an annual conference; and offers a free speakers bureau to parent groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Asah keeps its membership of new jersey state-approved specialized schools informed on the regulations and laws impacting the operations of their schools. Asah maintains a code of ethics and standards for specialized schools providing education to students with special needs. Additionally, asah produces publications; provides information, referrals, and advocacy; offers a free speakers bureau for parent groups. Asah also conducts an annual outcomes analysis and other studies to ensure quality of services.
$981,071 spent$1,215,369 earned by the program87% of program spendingAsah annually awards the connections for success scholarships. The goal of the connections for success scholarship is to provide financial support and recognition of students with disabilities graduating from an asah member school as they pursue post-secondary training, education, or other opportunities. The scholarship criteria encourage continuing education and training, increased independence and goal setting, and promote community integration and the use of local resources and supports. The awarding of these scholarship provides direct financial support to youth with disabilities so that they may pursue post-secondary education, training,or other career or life-enhancing opportunities; encourages students and their families to identify local, community-based supports to help foster the success of the student beyond graduation; assist students with disabilities leaving asah schools to be able to pursue opportunities in the least restrictive setting; and encourages goal setting and planning for the future.
$10,500 spentof which $10,500 as grants1% of program spendingAsah annually organizes the largest special education conference in new jersey. In addition to the annual conference, asah organizes professional development seminars for the staff of the more than 125 schools it serves. These seminars include topics of interest to the teachers, paraprofessionals, board certified behavioral analysts (bcbas), school nurses, business managers, human resources personnel, public relations staff, principals, and executive directors that work for these schools. Additionally, asah organizes professional roundtables for many of these professionals that meet multiple times of year to share best practices and information related to new local, state, and federal requirements impacting their work.
$131,388 spent$121,735 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,122,959.
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 2019 to 2020, from $931k to $1.1M (+20%).
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 9 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
John Mulholland Jr
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $28.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC’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
ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 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
ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC?
- ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,406 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL AND GENEVIEVE RATNER FOUNDATION ($110,353). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $116,406 in grants to ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC?
- THE DANIEL AND GENEVIEVE RATNER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,353 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASAH - SERVING THE PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY SINCE 1974 INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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