2025-11-17T15:45:04-05:00 2024-12-31 473062211 Elizabeth A Porter CPA 1109 Italy Drive Allen TX 75013 990 2024-01-01 871876155 Ashrei Foundation % Sara Ruiz ASHR 3142520717 3000 Prairie Avenue Saint Louis MO 63107 SARA RUIZ Executive Director 3142520717 2025-11-15 true true ELIZABETH PORTER P01306666 3144436886 2025-11-17 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z 587015 false X www.ashreifoundation.org X 2021 MO The Ashrei Foundation exists to empower and activate the St. Louis community and partners throughout the state of Missouri to promote economic justice, to relieve suffering, and interrupt cycles of poverty. 12 12 4 52 0 0 101812 575422 200 0 23197 11593 0 125209 587015 17500 54910 0 99306 273318 0 54742 80549 118928 197355 447156 -72146 139859 813791 954022 4905 5277 808886 948745 The Ashrei Foundation exists to empower and activate the St. Louis community and partners throughout the state of Missouri to promote economic justice, to relieve suffering, and interrupt cycles of poverty. false false 136765 4910 The Ashrei Foundations Refugee Resettlement Project began in 2021 as a women-led volunteer initiative welcoming families from Afghanistan and Ukraine to St. Louis. Now a formal Ashrei program, it provides housing, education, employment, and community integration support while advancing advocacy for refugee and immigrant rights. Volunteers coordinate sponsorships, travel, stipends, benefits access, ESL, and employment support. Ashrei also fiscally sponsors Camp Indigo Point, a two-week summer camp for LGBTQ youth - especially trans and gender-expansive campers - offering an affirming space for safety and belonging. Scholarships ensure cost is never a barrier, helping more than 340 campers from 27 states since 2021. Additionally, Ashrei supports labor rights and civic engagement, tracking legislation, hosting community trainings and amplifying the work of Missouri Jobs with Justice, the Missouri Workers Center, and allied organizations. 102156 50000 In 2024, the Ashrei Foundation supported the Missouri State ID Access Coalition as a co-facilitator of the program in partnership with St. Francis Xavier College Church. We supported the ID Access Subgrant Funding Cycle, supporting 13 groups across the state of Missouri who wanted to assist individuals with getting their government-issued photo IDs and birth certificates. In 2023, Ashrei wrote a grant for Impact Through Access: Eliminating barriers to identification for a healthier Missouri and were awarded $588,488 by the Missouri Foundation for Health, which allowed us to expand the Coalitions work in 2024. We hired a Coalition Direction who is an Ashrei employee and hosted the first Missouri State ID Access Summit in October, which we believe to be the first of its kind in the country. 74896 In 2022, we launched a pilot program to expand access to photo identification, which has now become an established program called the North City Photo ID Project. In 2024, this program trained 45 volunteers and served 1,523 individuals. We covered the costs of 1,015 Missouri birth certificates, 253 out of state birth certificates, and supported (through financial and/or logistical assistance) applications for 1,170 Missouri non-driver photo IDs. This program offered 3 volunteer training events and weekly ID access clinic days open to the public. The North City Photo ID Project operates out of our office space in a community center operated by the Tabernacle Community Development Corporation called the The Tabernacle Hub, located in North St. Louis City. 313817 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 6 0 4 true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false X 12 12 false false true false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false MO X X Sara Ruiz 3142520717 3000 Prairie Avenue Saint Louis MO 63107 Sara Ruiz Executive Director 40.00 0.00 X 100178 0 0 Rabbi Susan Talve Founder 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ken Goldman Immediate Past President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Gawain Jameson Board Member 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Alex Templeton Board Member 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Helen Petty President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Marcy Brodsky Board Member 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Rhoda Kahn Nussbaum Board Member 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mindy Berkowitz Vice President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Elliot Uchitelle Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Carol Wofsey Secretary 0.50 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Rose Terranova Board Member 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Enbal Shacham Board Member 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Cynthia Jones Board Member 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 100178 0 0 1 false false false 575422 575422 11593 11593 0 587015 11593 0 0 53825 53825 1085 1085 114206 68523 17131 28552 131488 97841 17761 15886 9895 6804 1918 1173 17729 12083 2515 3131 2938 1063 1875 4050 750 3300 9098 5598 3500 2775 1195 1580 7251 3518 3544 189 11663 2177 9457 29 7600 7600 4122 1640 2010 472 1685 1685 North City Photo ID Project 44115 44115 Meals & Food Supplies 2159 361 1739 59 Program Event Expenses 17551 11403 1197 4951 Memberships & Subscriptions 998 813 185 2923 1023 1600 300 447156 313817 78597 54742 79513 427802 724336 215215 8492 25 1442 2007 300481 8500 813791 954022 4905 5277 4905 5277 X 808886 948745 808886 948745 813791 954022 139859 0 X false false false X 958664 101812 575422 1635898 958664 101812 575422 1635898 1277847 358051 2598 23197 11593 37388 106 106 1673392 200 0.21400 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED true true false false false false true true 1565 false 1565 Bonds 100481 C Equity ETPs 200000 C 300481 Sara Ruiz Executive Director Payroll Benefits X 25 25 false true true 25 Organizational document changes Part VI line 4 Ashrei revised its bylaws to remove language that bound the board eligibility to CRC membership, updated board term limits, removed the provision that Board members can be compensated for services rendered to the organization, updated the minimum board meeting requirement, updated the board member election meeting, updated the nominating committee structure requirements and added an article outlining dissolution. Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11 Form 990 was provided to all voting members of the governing body to review prior to the filing deadline. Conflict of interest policy compliance Part VI line 12c Ashrei regularly monitors compliance with its Conflict of Interest policy by requiring interested persons to disclose the existence of a possible conflict of interest. The governing board will determine whether a conflict of interest has occurred and the procedures to address the conflict of interest. If a member fails to disclose a conflict of interest, there will be appropriate disciplinary and corrective action. CEO executive director top management comp Part VI line 15a The Ashrei Foundation received the official designation from the IRS as a 501(c)(3) on March 30, 2022. As a new not-for-profit, we developed a very robust hiring process. We consulted other nonprofit organization for their opinions and best practices, and pulled data to study salaries paid to executive directors of not-for-profits in the state of Missouri. In this way, the Board of the Ashrei Foundation determined what would be a fair salary and what benefits to offer our executive director. Other officer or key employee compensation Part VI line 15b Other officers of the organization are not currently paid but if they were to be, the governing board would use comparable data from other nonprofit organizations to determine a fair and reasonable salary. Governing documents etc available to public Part VI line 19 The Form 990 is available to the public upon request. Form 990 is also provided to Guidestar to be available for public review.