FundersNew York

Ashley Family Foundation Inc

Rochester, NY · EIN 16-1515899. Reported 83 grants totalling $918,450 to 43 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$918,450granted, 2021-2024
43organizations funded
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,438,717assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Ashley Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $185,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
12 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
48 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
SUNY College at Oneonta FoundationOneonta, NY$570,000442024
Department of Urology - Urmc Clinical Research & Hospital ProgramsRochester, NY$100,000112023
Allendale Columbia SchoolRochester, NY$50,000442024
United WayRochester, NY$40,000442024
The Boys and Girls Clubs of RochesterRochester, NY$20,000442024
Green Mountain ClubWaterbury Center, VT$16,000332024
Genesee Country Village & MuseumMumford, NY$13,000442024
Homesteads for HopeRochester, NY$12,000442024
Southside Early Childhood CenterSt Louis, MO$11,500442024
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$10,000112022
Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyWellesley, MA$10,000112024
Nols Scholarship FundLander, WY$6,750442024
The CurrentStowe, VT$6,500222024
The Colorado Trail FoundationGolden, CO$6,250442024
A Meal & MoreRochester, NY$5,000222022
St Jude's Children's HospitalMemphis, TN$5,000112024
Food Bank of the RockiesDenver, CO$3,250222024
Generate HealthSt Louis, MO$2,500112021
Person Centered Housing OptionsRochester, NY$2,500112021
Episcopal Senior LifeRochester, NY$2,000222024
International Institute of St LouisSt Louis, MO$2,000112024
Legal Services of Eastern MissouriSt Louis, MO$2,000112023
Wxxi Public TelevisionRochester, NY$2,000442024
East HouseRochester, NY$1,500112024
Rocovery FitnessRochester, NY$1,500112021
World Central Kitchen IncWashington, DC$1,500222024
Eagle River CoalitionGypsum, CO$1,250112024
Adirondack Mountain ClubLake George, NY$1,000112021
Boy Scout Troup 96Palmyra, NY$1,000112021
Eagle River Watershed CouncilGypsum, CO$1,000222022
Genesee Valley ConservancyGeneseo, NY$1,000112023
Genesee Valley ConservencyGeneseo, NY$1,000112021
Helen Day Art Center IncStowe, VT$1,000112021
House of MercyRochester, NY$1,000112024
Missouri Abortion FundSaint Louis, MO$1,000112024
Mostly Modern ProjectsNew York, NY$1,000112023
Pcho IncRochester, NY$1,000112023
St Louis Area Diaper BankSt Louis, MO$1,000112022
The Honeoye-Richmond Historical SocietyHoneoye, NY$1,000112024
The Ocean Cleanup North Pacific FoundationSan Francisco, CA$1,000112021
World Bicycle ReliefChicago, IL$1,000222022
Vermont Ski and Snowboard MuseumStowe, VT$350222024
Charles Settlement HouseRochester, NY$100112021

19 of 43 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 61%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
9 grants
Human Services
8 grants
Environment
7 grants
Housing & Shelter
5 grants
Education
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202123$118,100$1,500
202217$195,500$3,500
202319$334,100$2,000
202424$270,750$1,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 91% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$838K
Vermont
$24K
Missouri
$20K
Colorado
$12K
Massachusetts
$10K
Wyoming
$7K
Tennessee
$5K
District of Columbia
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund19 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsRochester Area Community Foundation7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Ashley Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 16 W Main Street Suite 700, Rochester, NY, 14614. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 16-1515899 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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