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Alice S Ayling Scholarship Foundation at a glance

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Alice S Ayling Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$11M
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$106,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEENE STATE COLLEGE$119,000
NORWICH UNIVERSITY$117,500
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$115,000
SIMMONS COLLEGE$109,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASS-DARTMOUTH$107,000
MASS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS$106,500
LESLEY UNIVERSITY$106,500
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$104,500
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$104,000
CLARK UNIVERSITY$101,500
BATES COLLEGE$99,500
COLBY COLLEGE$90,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$85,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$85,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $120k → 8%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $134k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS-DARTMOUTH: $124k → 11%MASS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: $120k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $160k → 16%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $100k → 9%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $200k → 9%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $100k → 7%BATES COLLEGE: $116k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $170k → 15%COLBY COLLEGE: $124k → 15%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $104k → 8%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $118k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS-DARTMOUTH: $110k → 11%MASS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: $107k → 12%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $125k → 16%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $135k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $114k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $132k → 15%COLBY COLLEGE: $105k → 15%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $104k → 8%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $110k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS-DARTMOUTH: $107k → 11%MASS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: $107k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $122k → 16%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $130k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $106k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $118k → 15%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $102k → 11%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $113k → 16%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $125k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $100k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $115k → 15%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $97k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $111k → 16%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $118k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $98k → 15%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $109k → 16%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $115k → 9%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $105k → 16%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $96k → 16%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $93k → 16%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $124k → 8%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $115k → 8%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $107k → 8%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 15 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
0

Total granted

$11M
$0

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NU
    Norwich University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +20%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $872k · revenue +110%
  • PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $795k · revenue +9%

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field

    Closest unfunded matches

    The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    Trustees of Dartmouth College

    Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

    Education
    2
    Western New England University

    Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

    Education
    3
    Roger Williams University

    At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

    Education
    4
    Boston Architectural College

    The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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    5
    Lehigh University

    The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

    Education
    6
    Endicott College

    Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

    Education
    7
    Wake Forest University

    Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

    Education
    8
    Bentley University

    Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

    Education
    9
    Whittier College

    Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

    Education
    10
    Dickinson College

    Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

    Education
    11
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

    Education
    12
    Reed Institute

    The mission of Reed College is to provide education in the liberal arts and sciences.

    Education
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Lesley University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
    04the grantee network

    10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    10/10
    Grantees still filing
    8/10
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    Norwich University: $1,057,600 · EducationNorwich UniversityNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $872,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $794,500 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGETRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $791,750 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITYTrustees of Tufts College: $753,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $746,000 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITYThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $704,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby CollegeBowdoin College: $625,750 · EducationBowdoin CollegePresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $618,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury CollegeUNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $882,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINELESLEY UNIVERSITY: $880,600 · OtherLESLEY UNIVERSITYKEENE STATE COLLEGE: $845,000 · OtherKEENE STATE COLLEGEMASS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: $665,000 · OtherMASS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTSUNIVERSITY OF MASS-DARTMOUTH: $664,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASS-DARTMOUTH+1 more: $24,900 · Other
    Education$6,963,100Other$3,962,300

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorwich University: $1,057,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $880,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $872,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $794,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $791,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $753,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $746,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $704,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $625,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $618,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds Norwich University ↗
    • Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
    • Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
    • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
    • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
    • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Alice S Ayling Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alice S Ayling Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
    • Norwich University: 14% of income from government
    • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
    • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
    • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
    • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
    • Simmons University: 0% of income from government
    • Lesley University: 0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Alice S Ayling Scholarship Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Alice S Ayling Scholarship Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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