Washington · Nonprofit
ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,514,582 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($7,014,950). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Ashesi University Foundation does
Mission
Ashesi University Foundation provides support for educational opportunities in ghana. Our mission is to advance the education of ethical, entrepreneurial leaders who will build a flourishing africa where all people can achieve their full potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Campus expansion: to serve ashesi university's (ashesi) growing student body, we are raising funds to purchase equipment and build more classrooms, labs, student housing, and collaborative spaces.
$1,977,624 spentof which $1,819,869 as grants48% of program spendingScholarships: as ashesi grows, we are raising funds to maintain the percentage of students on scholarships. 54% of ashesi's students received financial aid, funded through tuition and donor contributions.
$1,296,637 spentof which $1,231,449 as grants32% of program spendingProgram growth: to provide students with the highest quality education, we are raising funds to invest in faculty development, research, the education collaborative and other initiatives and priorities.
$831,968 spentof which $643,290 as grants20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,106,229.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $15M to $26M (+69%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 13% · 2019 16% · 2020 24% · 2021 15% · 2022 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $732k → $7.1M.
16 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 39% · 2019 31% · 2020 16% · 2021 24% · 2022 32% · 2023 78% — growing more concentrated.
“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
59% of ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
78% of ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION'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 $4.1M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$6.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ASHESI UNIVERSITY 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASHESI UNIVERSITY 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 ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,514,582 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($7,014,950). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $18,514,582 in grants to ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,014,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 38 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