· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $415k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLA ESPERANZA | $250,000 |
| KECK MEDICINE OF USC | $100,000 |
| ONE ARROYO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE GOODEN CENTER | $65,000 |
| GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| WALTER HOVING HOME | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER N MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| HILLSIDES | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOOD PROJECT | $10,000 |
| COMPUTERS 2 KIDS | $6,100 |
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 (FY19–25, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- VEVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES4× · 2019–2025 · $555k · revenue +16%
- HPHOLLENBECK PALMS5× · 2017–2023 · $527k · revenue +59%
- USUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES4× · 2019–2023 · $459k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES COUNTY ARBORETUMone grant, 2019 · $250k
- HCHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +11%
Pasadena Conservatory of Musicone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -24%
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.
To promote historic preservation and neighborhood revitalization by developing, owning, and operating rental or for sale low-income housing property.
To provide the highest level of long-term care in Southern California. The Servants of Mary and Ministers to the Sick are dedicated to helping in the personal life transition of the residents and their famiiles in a spirit and expression…
A not-for-profit, long-term acute care specialty healthcare organization is to improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory and other diseases that may require prolonged acute hospitalization of specialized treatment.
Building on the legacy and vision of our founders, the california armenian home, as a progressively lead non-profit community, is committed to provide a one-of-a-kind, people centered, planned senior community to serve all levels of senior…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Our mission is to serve foster youth, families and our community through intensive clinical evidence-based treatment services, along with personalized and compassionate care. we provide mental health treatment that changes lives through a…
Pomona community health center's mission is to be the medical home for the underserved in our community by providing high quality preventive and primary care health services.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Livingston provides a variety of home health services ranging from rehabilitative care to hospice care of the highest quality in the most cost-effective manner to residents of ventura county.
Mission: we provide high quality healthcare without discrimination, and contribute to the health and well-being of our communities in an ethical, safe, and fiscally prudent manner in recognition of our charitable purpose.
To provide high quality long term care for residents in a loving and caring environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 61 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 VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOLLENBECK PALMS ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GOODEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds ONE ARROYO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds WALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HOME ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds THE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDES ↗
- Who funds SANTA TERESITA INC ↗
- Who funds Legacy Connections ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FOR CAMBODIAN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds MONTE VISTA GROVE HOMES ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — 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
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 The Ayrshire 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.