· Private foundation
Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTSMOUTH PRO MUSICA | $6,000 |
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE WALDEN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| UPBEAT NH UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHUA | $1,764 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% of your 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 +29% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
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
- CCCONCORD CHORALE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +29%
- ACASHUELOT CONCERTS3× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +946%
- NCNASHUA CHORAL SOCIETY2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- AHAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- MOMUSIC ON NORWAY PONDone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
- ACAMARE CANTAREone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
music education
Educate member-singers and the public through the performance of renaissance choral music
Classical music concerts.
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
Bringing classical music to the Merrimac Valley
Down East Singers is a musical organization specifically incorporated to create opportunities for participation and enrichment for community members, to perform quality choral music under professional leadership, and to bring affordable…
High quality professional chamber-music concerts.
The cambridge community chorus is a nonprofit organization known for its broad repertoire, including the world and north american premieres of new choral works, for the quality of its performances and for its diverse and varied membership…
Public performances of classical choral music with orchestra and music education
Performs classical music for the community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concord Community Music School and the most unlike its peers is New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Camereta New England ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds APPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ASHUELOT CONCERTS ↗
- Who funds NASHUA CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAKES REGION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Portsmouth Pro Musica ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ON NORWAY POND ↗
- Who funds MONADNOCK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE KEENE CHORALE INC ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Trust Estate Uw Marion C Smyth · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · The Memton Fund Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust 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.