Ases Foundation
Schaumburg, IL · EIN 36-3313192. Reported 69 grants totalling $1,602,733 to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 7% 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.
- How much its list changes. 16% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,840. Half of what it reported fell between $13,083 and $28,087; the smallest was $501 and the largest $105,103. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $105,422 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education Inc | Tampa, FL | $105,103 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hh Medstar Health Inc | Columbia, MD | $70,899 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Mayo Clinic Orthopedic Surgery Department | Rochester, MN | $56,175 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University Orthopaedic Services Inc | Cheektowaga, NY | $52,698 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montefiore Medical Center | Bronx, NY | $48,928 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $48,928 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Corewell Health | Grand Rapids, MI | $48,927 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc | New York, NY | $48,927 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $48,927 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $48,927 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cincinnati Shoulder and Elbow Research and Education Foundation | Edgewood, KY | $45,087 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Foundation | Beverly Hills, CA | $43,088 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The San Antonio Orthopaedic Group Llp | San Antonio, TX | $41,262 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $40,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Turnkey Al Practice Inc | Charlotte, NC | $40,074 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Musculoskeletal Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $36,428 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nth Dimensions | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Baptist Healthcare System Inc | Louisville, KY | $29,551 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University Athletic Association Inc | Gainesville, FL | $29,451 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boston Sports and Shoulder Center Research Foundation Inc | Waltham, MA | $29,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc Hcsr | Charlestown, MA | $28,088 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $27,790 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Chicago Dept of Orthopedic Surgery | Chicago, IL | $25,771 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $21,972 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Shoulder and Elbow | Schaumburg, IL | $21,644 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Oregon Orthopedic Research Foundation | Medford, OR | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas Education and Research Foundation for Shoulder & Elbow Su | Houston, TX | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, NY | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Upmc | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $20,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carolinas Shoulder and Elbow Society Inc | Asheville, NC | $19,404 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bjc Health System | Saint Louis, MO | $18,766 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Louis University | Saint Louis, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center | Cleveland, OH | $14,968 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Henry Ford Health System | Detroit, MI | $14,548 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida Orthopaedic Academic Foundation Corporation | Orlando, FL | $13,083 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Omar Rahman MD Inc | Santa Monica, CA | $11,084 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $11,027 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $10,459 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Pacific Orthopaedics Research & Education Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kaiser Permanente Southern California Permanente Medical Group | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Medstar Health Research Institute Inc | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Hughston Foundation Inc | Columbus, GA | $9,953 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $7,578 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Palm Beach Research and Education Foundation Inc | N Palm Beach, FL | $7,578 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Organizational Grants Under 5000 | $7,401 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | |
| Chattanooga Orthopedic Educational & Research Foundation | Chattanooga, TN | $6,613 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ohio State University Foundation | Columbus, OH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $5,628 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sabesan Orthopaedics Research Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $5,580 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hss Florida Physicians LLC | West Palm Beach, FL | $3,456 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
7 of 57 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 33 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $317,920 | $20,840 |
| 2022 | 16 | $610,280 | $28,087 |
| 2023 | 9 | $91,648 | $9,953 |
| 2024 | 13 | $257,837 | $14,350 |
| 2025 | 16 | $325,048 | $19,085 |
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
17% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,840 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- 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 Ases Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 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: 1515 E Woodfield Road 345, Schaumburg, IL, 60173.
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