Rhode Island · Private foundation
Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $777k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 6 | $28k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $36k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $18k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $18k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $16k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $17k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $17k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camereta New England | $16,600 | 4 | 11% |
| Concord Chorale Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Symphony New Hampshire | $10,037 | 2 | 1% |
| Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ashuelot Concerts | $9,350 | 3 | 7% |
| Nashua Choral Society | $8,350 | 2 | n/a |
| Manchester Community Music School | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Concord Community Music School | $7,426 | 2 | 0% |
| Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra | $6,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Portsmouth Pro Musica | $6,000 | 1 | 10% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camereta New England | $16,600 | 4 | 11% |
| Concord Chorale Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Symphony New Hampshire | $10,037 | 2 | 1% |
| Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ashuelot Concerts | $9,350 | 3 | 7% |
| Nashua Choral Society | $8,350 | 2 | n/a |
| Manchester Community Music School | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Concord Community Music School | $7,426 | 2 | 0% |
| Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra | $6,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Portsmouth Pro Musica | $6,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Music on Norway Pond | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Amare Cantare | $3,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Monadnock Music | $3,100 | 1 | 1% |
| The Keene Chorale Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust 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: 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
How this is measured
About Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust
- How much does Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust give?
- Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust reported 6 grants totaling $27,764 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Arts & Culture (38%), Education (5%).
- Who are Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Camereta New England ($17k), Concord Chorale Inc ($11k), Symphony New Hampshire ($10k).
- Does Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Trust Estate Uw Marion C Smyth, Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr.
- Where is Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust based?
- Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust is based in RI.
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