West Virginia · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC
FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,107 to it, the largest being THE WEST VIRGINIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($69,219). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Friends of Ashby's Fort Inc does
Mission
Friends of ashby's fort is a private, not for profit 501(c)3 organization funded by admission, donations, and museum store purchases. The friends of ashby's fort exists to support the ashby's fort museum and historical site, to educate the public about the history of pioneers, to honor the struggle of settlers and native americans on the frontier, and to preserve, interpret, and bring to life the cultural heritage of the site as a legacy for future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ashby's fort has served as a community center for the past several years. From the annual fort ashby days (a three-day celebration of the town of fort ashby including a parade, vendors, and food) to several concerts each year, the museum has been a center of historic, art, and cultural events. The museum is also home to ashby's second company of rangers, a french and indian war reenactor group.
With the exception of 2020 (due to the pandemic), foaf has hosted archaeological work each summer since 2017. Two of those "digs" were through a 6 week class offered by potomac state college. Approximately 10 students and several volunteers were involved in excavating the northeast bastion of the original stockade and most of the remaining outline of the stockade that is located on foaf property.
Friends of ashby's fort is a private, not for profit 501(c)3 organization funded by admission, donations, and museum store purchases. The friends of ashby's fort exists to support the ashby's fort museum and historical site, to educate the public about the history of pioneers, to honor the struggle of settlers and native americans on the frontier, and to preserve, interpret, and bring to life the cultural heritage of the site as a legacy for future generations.
$19,090 spent100% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,090.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $197k to $265k (+34%).
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.
77% of FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $1k.
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 FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT 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
FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
84% 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 FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 96% · 2022 64% · 2023 92% — 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
92% of FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $388 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
FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC's revenue fell 83% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC
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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC?
- FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,107 to it, the largest being THE WEST VIRGINIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($69,219). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $83,107 in grants to FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC?
- THE WEST VIRGINIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $69,219 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 2018–2025), 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