· Private foundation
Trustees of the Ayer Home
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWELL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $4,600 |
| LOWELL DAY NURSERY ASSOC | $4,600 |
| GIRLS INC | $4,600 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| LOWELL ASSOC FOR THE BLIND | $4,000 |
| MERRIMACK REPERTORY THEATRE | $3,600 |
| PROJECT LEARN | $3,600 |
| LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $3,600 |
| THE WISH PROJECT | $3,600 |
| ACS INC | $3,600 |
| ACRE FAMILY DAY CARE | $3,600 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $3,400 |
| ALTERNATIVE HOUSE | $3,400 |
| GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INST OF NEW ENGLAND | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LDLOWELL DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +98%
- LALOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +53%
- LCLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- MRMERR REPERTORY THEATREone grant, 2017 · $6k
- OROUR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INCone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
Daycare services
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
Lowell makes is a collection of open workshops and laboratories where members and students can collaborate to learn, share, and hone crafts of all kinds. the focus is on providing a space for education, entrepreneurship, and engagement…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Lowell telecommunication corporation's mission is to strengthen the city of lowell as a community media and education center that empowers, connects, and informs all residents, businesses, and organizations in the city. ltc provides…
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Clm undertakes public education and advocacy activities that promote the well being of children and families through improving and ensuring the availability of quality child welfare services.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
To provide specialized advocacy and representation for children on issues affecting their health, education and welfare including providing resources and training
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LOWELL DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WISH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC ↗
- Who funds MILL CITY GROWS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds On The Move Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Teamwork Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL ↗
- Who funds LOWELL YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN TECH INC ↗
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: Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Saab Family Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · The Battles Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc · Demoulas Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trustees of the Ayer Home funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustees of the Ayer Home. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for Hope & Healing Inc: 73% of income from government
- Lowell Association for the Blind Inc: 49% of income from government
- Acre Family Child Care Inc: 45% of income from government
- The Community Family Inc: 41% of income from government
- Lowell Community Health Center Inc: 34% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc: 23% of income from government
- Lowell Day Nursery Association Inc: 20% of income from government
- Kids in Tech Inc: 15% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc: 5% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
- House of Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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