Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Ausolus Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 58
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Ausolus Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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 | 64 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $1.4M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $1.2M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $1.1M | 2% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $1.1M | 4% |
| FY2017 | 47 | $1.0M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Island Readers & Writers an Initiative for Maine Children | $935,000 | 8 | 45% |
| St Mark's School of Southborough Inc | $520,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Vassar College | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Springside Chestnut Hill Academy | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Second Stage Theatre Inc | $265,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated | $250,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Shelburne Museum Inc | $245,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve | $245,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $227,500 | 8 | 0% |
| President and Trustees of Bates College | $220,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ausolus Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Ethel D Colket Foundation · The Edward Marthann Samek Foundation · Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee · Florence V Burden Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Ausolus Trust
- How much does The Ausolus Trust give?
- The Ausolus Trust reported 68 grants totaling $1,515,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ausolus Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Arts & Culture (24%), Environment (12%).
- Who are The Ausolus Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Island Readers & Writers an Initiative for Maine Children ($935k), St Mark's School of Southborough Inc ($520k), Vassar College ($300k).
- Does The Ausolus Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ausolus Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ausolus Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Colket Family Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ausolus Trust based?
- The Ausolus Trust is based in MA.
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