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Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$124kArts & Culture$103kEducation$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$777k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTSMOUTH PRO MUSICA$6,000
CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL$5,000
MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
THE WALDEN SCHOOL$5,000
UPBEAT NH UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHUA$1,764
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HALCYON MUSIC FESTIVAL: $3k → 5%UPBEAT NH UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHUA: $3k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $27k → 7%THE WALDEN SCHOOL: $5k → 9%LAKES REGION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 9%AMARE CANTARE: $3k → 9%CAMERATA NEW ENGLAND: $8k → 10%MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $5k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $27k → 7%UPBEAT NH UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHUA: $2k → 9%LAKES REGION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 9%CAMERATA NEW ENGLAND: $4k → 10%MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $3k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%APPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC: $10k → 9%CAMERATA NEW ENGLAND: $3k → 10%MONADNOCK MUSIC INC: $3k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $24k → 7%ASHUELOT CONCERTS: $4k → 9%CAMERATA NEW ENGLAND: $2k → 10%MUSIC ON NORWAY POND: $5k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $17k → 7%ASHUELOT CONCERTS: $3k → 9%NASHUA CHORAL SOCIETY: $5k → 7%CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $5k → 7%ASHUELOT CONCERTS: $3k → 9%SYMPHONY NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5k → 7%CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $2k → 7%THE KEENE CHORALE INC: $2k → 9%NASHUA CHORAL SOCIETY: $3k → 7%ALCHEMISTS WORKSHOP: $2k → 7%SYMPHONY NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 10 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$110k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CONCORD CHORALE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +29%
  • AC
    ASHUELOT CONCERTS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +946%
  • NC
    NASHUA CHORAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • AH
    APPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • MO
    MUSIC ON NORWAY POND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • AC
    AMARE CANTARE
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Nashua Community Chamber Orchestra

music education

Arts & Culture
2
Convivium Musicum

Educate member-singers and the public through the performance of renaissance choral music

Arts & Culture
3
Southeastern Connecticut Community Orchestra Inc
Arts & Culture
4
New Hampshire Music Festival

Classical music concerts.

Arts & Culture
5
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

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.

—
6
Nielsen Chorale
Arts & Culture
7
The Andover Choral Society Inc

Bringing classical music to the Merrimac Valley

—
8
Down East Singers

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra

High quality professional chamber-music concerts.

—
10
Cambridge Community Chorus

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Dedham Choral Society Inc

Public performances of classical choral music with orchestra and music education

—
12
Warminster Symphony Society

Performs classical music for the community

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concord Community Music School; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $119,433 · PhilanthropyNew Hampshire Charitable FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $28,190 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCamereta New England: $16,600 · OtherCamereta New EnglandCONCORD CHORALE INC: $11,000 · OtherCONCORD CHORALE INCMANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $8,000 · OtherMANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLLAKES REGION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6,500 · OtherLAKES REGION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAPortsmouth Pro Musica: $6,000 · OtherPortsmouth Pro MusicaTHE WALDEN SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherUPBEAT NH UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHUA: $4,764 · Other+5 more: $12,700 · Other+5 moreSYMPHONY NEW HAMPSHIRE: $10,037 · Arts & CultureSYMPHONY NEW HAMPSHIR…APPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR…ASHUELOT CONCERTS: $9,350 · Arts & CultureASHUELOT CONCERTSNASHUA CHORAL SOCIETY: $8,350 · Arts & CultureNASHUA CHORAL SOCIETYCONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $7,426 · Arts & CultureCONCORD COMMUNITY MUS…MUSIC ON NORWAY POND: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ON NORWAY POND
Philanthropy$119,433Other$98,754Arts & Culture$50,163

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $119,433 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCamereta New England: $16,600 over 4y, 11% of budgetCONCORD CHORALE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSYMPHONY NEW HAMPSHIRE: $10,037 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASHUELOT CONCERTS: $9,350 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetMANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $7,426 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAKES REGION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPortsmouth Pro Musica: $6,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetMUSIC ON NORWAY POND: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMONADNOCK MUSIC: $3,100 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Trust Estate Uw Mario…Arthur L Getz Charita…Madelaine G Vonweber …The Memton Fund IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH27.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waldo & Alice Ayer Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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