Tennessee · Private foundation
The Ayers Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 90%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 29
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 90% of the organizations The Ayers Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $9.0M | 69% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $3.1M | 90% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $113k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont University | $3,000,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Freed-Hardeman University | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| East Tennessee State University Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Inc | $155,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ballad Health Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jonesborough United Methodist Church | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lane College | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Foundation for the College System of Tennessee | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ayers Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Ayers Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · AT&T Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation
How this is measured
About The Ayers Foundation Trust
- How much does The Ayers Foundation Trust give?
- The Ayers Foundation Trust reported 36 grants totaling $10,774,103 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 29 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does The Ayers Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Philanthropy (29%), Health (5%).
- Who are The Ayers Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Belmont University ($3.0M), Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($500k), Freed-Hardeman University ($400k).
- Does The Ayers Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ayers Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ayers Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ayers Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Tennessee Health Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ayers Foundation Trust based?
- The Ayers Foundation Trust is based in TN.
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