Oregon · Nonprofit
Association for the Study of Higher Education
Association for the Study of Higher Education (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,038 to it, the largest being Ascendium Education Solutions Inc ($100,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $225k
- Net assets
- $864k
What Association for the Study of Higher Education does
Mission
The primary mission of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)is to foster scholarly inquiry for the purpose of increasing knowledge about and the understanding of higher education to enhance policy and practice. This corporation, herein referred to as the association of ASHE, is organized for educational and related purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, including, but not limited to, facilitating communication and efforts among individuals and entities concerned with the study of higher education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conferences and Annual Meetings
$1,097,144 spent$370,854 earned by the program93% of program spendingPublications - Quarterly Journal, Regular Series
$75,054 spent$6,165 earned by the program6% of program spendingProfessional Development Events
$6,830 spent$294,042 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,179,028.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of Association for the Study of Higher Education’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $19k.
1 of 7 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 Association for the Study of Higher Education’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
Association for the Study of Higher Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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
Association for the Study of Higher Education draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88 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.
Against its field
Association for the Study of Higher Education's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Association for the Study of Higher Education
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Association for the Study of Higher Education: 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 Association for the Study of Higher Education?
- Association for the Study of Higher Education (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,038 to it, the largest being Ascendium Education Solutions Inc ($100,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Association for the Study of Higher Education have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $225,038 in grants to Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Association for the Study of Higher Education?
- Ascendium Education Solutions Inc is the largest funder on record, with $100,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Association for the Study of Higher Education find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 7 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