Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Ayers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $408k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $57,265
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Ayers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $408k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $390k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $475k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $386k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $367k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $372k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $353k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $329k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc | $467,265 | 8 | 2% |
| Peruvian Hearts | $382,200 | 8 | 16% |
| People of Peru Project | $247,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Angels Place Inc | $246,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Luz de Vida Formerly Corazon de Esperanza Inc | $207,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Pittsburgh Glass Center Inc | $111,000 | 8 | 1% |
| James Connection | $83,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Homeless Children's Education Fund | $80,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Park Association | $74,000 | 8 | 26% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($353k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ayers Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Fine Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Buhl Foundation · Wi Patterson Charitable Fund
How this is measured
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About Ayers Foundation
- How much does Ayers Foundation give?
- Ayers Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $408,265 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ayers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), International (25%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Ayers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc ($467k), Peruvian Hearts ($382k), People of Peru Project ($247k).
- Does Ayers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ayers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ayers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The Grable Foundation.
- Where is Ayers Foundation based?
- Ayers Foundation is based in PA.
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