· Private foundation
Ramani and Louise D Ayer Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE COD FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| SIPSON ISLAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF CAPE COD INC | $10,000 |
| MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGH NATURAL LAW | $10,000 |
| HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC | $9,900 |
| UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM | $5,000 |
| MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC | $3,000 |
| THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD | $1,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| UNICEF USA | $250 |
| CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HHHartford Hospital7× · 2017–2025 · $815k · revenue +92%
- MIMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $121k · revenue +43%
- RIREADYCT INC4× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue ×21
Funded once
- BSBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +13%
- NCNATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS INC (HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL)one grant, 2020 · $19k
- TCTHE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -75%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
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…
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sandhyas Touch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds READYCT INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE CAPE-CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION AND EDUCA ↗
- Who funds Mother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds SIPSON ISLAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIEND OF PLEASANT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford HealthCare at Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Raam Raj Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Raam Raj Foundation · Invincibility Foundation · Schwartz Family Foundation · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Green Family Charitable Foundation · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ramani and Louise D Ayer Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut — 62% of income from government
- Readyct Inc — 61% of income from government
- American School at Hartford for the Deaf — 32% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc — 10% of income from government
- Community First School Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust — 2% of income from government
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.