Tennessee · Private foundation
Ayers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $311k
- Granted FY2023
- 9
- Grants FY2023
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $17,068
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 54
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Total assets, FY2023
- $9.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Ayers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 9 | $311k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $2.9M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $3.3M | 5% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $3.3M | 49% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $657k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $3.5M | 41% |
| FY2017 | 54 | $2.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont University | $7,168,266 | 5 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $700,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Lipscomb University | $655,865 | 5 | 0% |
| Ballad Health Foundation | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc | $289,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Centerstone Foundation | $265,000 | 5 | 3% |
| University of Memphis Foundation | $215,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $155,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jonesborough United Methodist Church | $150,000 | 6 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ayers Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Ayers Foundation Trust · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Enchiridion Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Ayers Foundation
- How much does Ayers Foundation give?
- Ayers Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $311,291 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ayers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (43%), Philanthropy (29%), Health (18%).
- Who are Ayers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Belmont University ($7.2M), Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($701k), Lipscomb University ($656k).
- Does Ayers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% 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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is Ayers Foundation based?
- Ayers Foundation is based in TN.
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