GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Ash Registry Inc

Washington, DC · EIN 82-4218205. Reported 33 grants totalling $2,772,634 to 20 organizations across tax years 2022-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

20organizations funded
$75,000median reported grant
$2,772,634granted, 2022-2023
58%of grantees funded again the next year
13%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Ash Registry Inc, the IRS classifies it under science & technology rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE U20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 20 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 58% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $75,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $106,720; the smallest was $8,151 and the largest $174,997. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
12 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
14 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of California San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$349,998422023
University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, AL$249,994222023
Washington UniversitySt Louis, MO$198,933222023
Rwj Barnabas Health IncOceanport, NJ$175,000222023
University of Connecticut Health CenterFarmington, CT$167,780112022
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$164,218112022
Duke UniversityDurham, NC$162,784222023
Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY$158,311222023
The Medical College of Wisconsin IncMilwaukee, WI$145,621222023
Baylor College of MedicineHouston, TX$134,729222023
Prisma Health - UpstateGreenville, SC$124,401112022
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC$117,500222023
Childrens Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH$116,576222023
Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of ChicagoChicago, IL$105,868112022
Augusta University Research Institute IncAugusta, GA$104,999112022
The Childrens Hospital of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$84,833112022
New York City Health and Hospitals CorporationNew York, NY$79,685222023
Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$75,000112023
Children's National Medical CenterWashington, DC$48,253112022
Ut Southwestern Medical CenterDallas, TX$8,151112022

11 of 20 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 20 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
8 orgs
Health Care
6 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202220$2,014,356$102,499
202313$758,278$58,311

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

13% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$350K
North Carolina
$280K
Alabama
$250K
New York
$238K
Missouri
$199K
Georgia
$180K
New Jersey
$175K
Connecticut
$168K

Down to the city

San Francisco, CA
$350K
Birmingham, AL
$250K
St Louis, MO
$199K
Oceanport, NJ
$175K
Farmington, CT
$168K
Baltimore, MD
$164K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.

American Heart Association Inc7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsJohns Hopkins University6 shared recipientsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsPublic Health Institute5 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $75,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Ash Registry Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 2021 L Street Nw 900, Washington, DC, 20036.

EIN 82-4218205 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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