California · Private foundation
The Ayrshire 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.
- $691k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Ayrshire Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $691k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $698k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $732k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $933k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $995k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $85k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $995k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $524k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villa Esperanza Services | $555,387 | 4 | 1% |
| Hollenbeck Palms | $527,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Union Station Homeless Services | $458,500 | 4 | 1% |
| McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation | $440,000 | 2 | 4% |
| The Gooden Center | $215,000 | 4 | 1% |
| One Arroyo Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 24% |
| Great Lakes Center for the Arts | $184,619 | 4 | 1% |
| Pasadena Humane | $153,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Walter Hoving Home Inc Dba Hoving Home | $150,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ayrshire 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: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · The Fitzberg Foundation · Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation · Henry a Yost and Cynthia Yost Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Ayrshire Foundation
- How much does The Ayrshire Foundation give?
- The Ayrshire Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $691,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ayrshire Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are The Ayrshire Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Villa Esperanza Services ($555k), Hollenbeck Palms ($527k), Union Station Homeless Services ($459k).
- Does The Ayrshire Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ayrshire Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ayrshire Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pasadena Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is The Ayrshire Foundation based?
- The Ayrshire Foundation is based in CA.
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