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Ramani and Louise D Ayer Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$932kEducation$243kPhilanthropy$195kEnvironment$110kYouth Development$106kReligion$102kHousing & Shelter$90kFood & Nutrition$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
$9,900
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPE COD FOUNDATION INC$40,000
MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$30,000
HARTFORD HOSPITAL$25,000
TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF CAPE COD INC$10,000
MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGH NATURAL LAW$10,000
SIPSON ISLAND TRUST$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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MOTHER DIVINE PROGRAM-MAHARISHI GLOBAL COUNTY OF WORLD PEACE INC: $10k → 16%MOTHER DIVINE PROGRAM-MAHARISHI GLOBAL COUNTY OF WORLD PEACE INC: $10k → 16%MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $10k → 16%MOTHER DIVINE PROGRAM-MAHARISHI GLOBAL COUNTY OF WORLD PEACE INC: $10k → 16%MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $8k → 16%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $3k → 14%MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $7k → 16%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $250 → 14%MOTHER DIVINE PROGRAM-MAHARISHI GLOBAL COUNTY OF WORLD PEACE INC: $2k → 16%MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGH NATURAL LAW (MOTHER DEVINE PROGRAM): $2k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $28k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $15k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $10k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC: $1k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $250 → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC: $200 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NM
NC
DC
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 31 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
31

Total granted

$1.6M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+38%

Still filing today

84%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HH
    Hartford Hospital
    7× · 2017–2025 · $815k · revenue +112%
  • MI
    MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $121k · revenue +43%
  • RI
    READYCT INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue ×21

Funded once

  • BS
    BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +13%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS INC (HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL)
    one grant, 2020 · $19k
  • TC
    THE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -75%
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
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
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
5
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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6
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
7
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
8
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

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…

Philanthropy
9
Activate Global Inc

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…

Environment
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
33/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hartford Hospital: $815,000 · HealthHartford Hospital+6 more: $13,250 · HealthCape Cod Foundation Inc: $195,000 · EducationCape Cod Foundation IncMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $121,400 · EducationMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL U…READYCT INC: $55,000 · EducationREADYCT INCDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $52,500 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY+5 more: $14,000 · EducationCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCA…SUSTAINABLE CAPE: $55,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE CAPEIndividual grant recipient: $26,525 · OtherIndividual grant …NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS INC (HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL): $18,500 · OtherNATIONAL COALITIO…NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC (HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL): $18,500 · OtherNATIONAL COALITIO…MTU: $15,000 · OtherBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherBRAHMANANDA SARAS…THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $11,000 · Other+27 more: $65,500 · Other+27 moreTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS …SUSTAINABLE CAPE-CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION AND EDUCA: $48,775 · Youth DevelopmentSUSTAINAB…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $52,650 · Human ServicesMother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc: $32,000 · Human ServicesMAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $26,500 · Human Services+3 more: $4,650 · Human ServicesSIPSON ISLAND TRUST INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIEND OF PLEASANT BAY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST: $5,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $21,000 · Philanthropy
Health$828,250Education$437,900Other$305,025Youth Development$154,275Human Services$115,800Environment$50,000Philanthropy$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHartford Hospital: $815,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc: $195,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $121,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREADYCT INC: $55,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $52,650 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE CAPE-CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION AND EDUCA: $48,775 over 4y, 12% of budgetMother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc: $32,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetMAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $26,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $21,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIPSON ISLAND TRUST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHartford HealthCare at Home Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIEND OF PLEASANT BAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF CAPE COD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRaam Raj Foundation: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $2,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapitol Squash Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF CONNECTICUT: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORLEANS FIREMENS RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSANDHYAS TOUCH: $250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE 4TH OF JULY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Cape Cod Foundation I…Cape Cod Five Cents S…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Hartford Foundation f…Raam Raj FoundationInvincibility Foundat…Schwartz Family Found…The Rona and Jeffrey …The Ayco Charitable F…Green Family Charitab…Cape Cod Healthcare I…Edward Bangs Kelley a…
Cape Cod Foundation IncMA23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ramani and Louise D Ayer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ramani and Louise D Ayer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 67 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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