The Ausherman Family Trust

Analysis

The Ausherman Family Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Frederick, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Ausherman Family Trust reported income of $51k and spending of $1.2m, spending 2249% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $4.4m to $51k (-99%), an average of -67% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 195%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Ausherman Family Trust sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 22nd percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nathalie & Theodore Jones Charitabl TR Fbo Church-Larger Fellowship ($51k), United Court of Austin Inc ($51k) and For the Children Foundation ($51k).

At year end it held assets of $5.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $5.7m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.