Missouri · Nonprofit
Ashrei Foundation
Ashrei Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,452 to it, the largest being Viragh Family Foundation ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $587k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $949k
What Ashrei Foundation does
Mission
The Ashrei Foundation exists to empower and activate the St. Louis community and partners throughout the state of Missouri to promote economic justice, to relieve suffering, and interrupt cycles of poverty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Ashrei expanded their program services to include the Missouri State ID Access Coalition as well as other programs listed in Part III.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
In 2022, we launched a pilot program to expand access to photo identification, which has now become an established program called the North City Photo ID Project. In 2023, this program trained 70 volunteers and served 875 individuals. We covered the costs of 597 Missouri birth certificates, 132 out of state birth certificates, and supported (through financial and/or logistical assistance) applications for 709 Missouri non-driver photo IDs. This program offered 4 volunteer training events and weekly ID access clinic days open to the public. The North City Photo ID Project operates out of our office space in a community center operated by the Tabernacle Community Development Corporation called the The Tabernacle Hub, located in North St. Louis City.
$69,450 spentof which $2,500 as grants58% of program spendingIn 2023, the Ashrei Foundation supported the Missouri State ID Access Coalition as a co-facilitator of the program in partnership with St. Francis Xavier College Church. We supported their Fall Mini-Grant Funding Cycle, supporting 7 groups across the state of Missouri who wanted to assist individuals with getting their government-issued photo IDs and birth certficates. We further supported the Coalition by writing a grant for Impact Through Access: Eliminating barriers to identification for a healthier Missouri and were awarded $588,488 by the Missouri Foundation for Health, with the first payment received in December 2023. This grant will allow us to expand the Coalitions work in 2024 in a variety of ways, including hiring a Coalition Coordinator who will be an Ashrei employee.
$29,733 spentof which $15,000 as grants25% of program spendingThe Ashrei Foundation has also actively supported abortion access in the state of Missouri. This included attending an AccessMO event about the ballot initiative process, amplifying messaging, and coordinating with MO Jobs With Justice to offer a training in preparation for signature gathering in 2024. Most notably, Ashreis founder, Rabbi Susan Talve was among the plaintiffs in the abortion access lawsuit, Rev. Traci Blackmon v. State of Missouri, filed in January 2023 and Ashrei staff attended information sessions for the plaintiffs to stay up to date on the status of the lawsuit, shared information with the base about the lawsuit, attended a hearing related to the lawsuit, and organized an event (Fighting for Freedom: Abortion Access & Religious Freedom in Missouri) with 3 plaintiffs and their attorney, with over 50 registered participants. Ashrei does legislative tracking and community training and supporting labor organizations that advocate for workers.
$20,181 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $119,364.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $814k to $954k (+17%).
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.
98% of Ashrei Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Sara Ruiz
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Ashrei 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Ashrei Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 Ashrei Foundation.
“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
Ashrei Foundation draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Ashrei Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Ashrei 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 Missouri
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
21%
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 Ashrei 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 Ashrei Foundation?
- Ashrei Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,452 to it, the largest being Viragh Family Foundation ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ashrei Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $91,452 in grants to Ashrei Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Ashrei Foundation?
- Viragh Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ashrei Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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