Funding search · EIN 621773033 · Parsons, TN

Ayers Foundation

Name: Ayers Foundation grants, 2022–2023
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

40
grants reported: $4.9M
total given: 2022–2023
filing years: $22,500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2023. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee1 grant · $1.7M
Belmont University1 grant · $1.5M
East Tennessee State University2 grants · $400,000
Lipscomb University1 grant · $240,000
Vanderbilt University Medical Center1 grant · $200,000
Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Educati1 grant · $150,000
Hermitage Foundation1 grant · $100,000
Ballad Health Foundation1 grant · $100,000
Taf Crf2 grants · $73,660
Foundation for the College System of Tennessee2 grants · $50,000

Giving over time

$4.6M

2022

$311,291

2023

Grant history

All 40 reported grants, largest first.

$1.7M
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$1.5M
Belmont University · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$240,000
Lipscomb University · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$200,000
East Tennessee State University · Johnson City, TN · 2023
General/operating
$200,000
East Tennessee State University · Johnson City, TN · 2022
General/operating
$200,000
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$150,000
Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Educati · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$100,000
Ballad Health Foundation · Johnson City, TN · 2022
General/operating
$100,000
Hermitage Foundation · Hermitage, TN · 2022
General/operating
$56,592
Taf Crf · Parsons, TN · 2022
General/operating
$50,000
Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$50,000
St Jude Children'S Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2022
General/operating
$35,000
Second Harvest Food · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$28,000
Lipscomb University - Leadership Tn · Nashville, TN · 2023
General/operating
$27,483
First Baptist Church Parsons · Parsons, TN · 2022
General/operating
$25,000
Foundation for the College System of Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2023
General/operating
$25,000
Freed-Hardman University · Henderson, TN · 2023
General/operating
$25,000
Foundation for the College System of Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$25,000
Jonesborough United Methodist Church · Jonesborough, TN · 2022
General/operating
$25,000
Lane College · Jackson, TN · 2022
General/operating
$20,000
United Way of Unicoi County · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$17,068
Taf Crf · Parsons, TN · 2023
General/operating
$15,000
Lipscomb University - Leadership Tn · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$15,000
Nashville Symphony · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$12,500
Tn Wildlife Resources Foundation · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$12,000
Small Miracles Therapeutic Equestrian Center · Kingsport, TN · 2023
General/operating
$12,000
Small Miracles Therapeutic Equestrian Center · Kingsport, TN · 2022
General/operating
$10,000
American Friends Musee D'Orsay · New York, NY · 2022
General/operating
$10,000
Centerstone Foundation · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$10,000
Cheekwood · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$5,000
Boy Scouts of America West Tennessee Area Council · Jackson, TN · 2022
General/operating
$3,000
Fellowship of Christian Athletes · Kansas City, MO · 2022
General/operating
$2,500
Centennial Park Conservancy · Nashville, TN · 2022
General/operating
$2,000
Mental Health America of the Mid-South · Nashville, TN · 2023
General/operating
$1,723
Second Harvest Food · Nashville, TN · 2023
General/operating
$1,635
First Christian Church · Parsons, TN · 2022
General/operating
$1,000
Kiwanis Club of Erwin · Erwin, TN · 2022
Charitable purposes
$1,000
Perry County School System · Linden, TN · 2022
General/operating
$500
Tennessee Children'S Home Donation · Brentwood, TN · 2023
General/operating
$500
Tennessee Children'S Home Donation · Brentwood, TN · 2022
General/operating

Who else funds this kind of work

Same state

Vanderbilt University Medical Center1,034 grants · $450.8M
Community Foundation3,092 grants · $495.0M
Vanderbilt University726 grants · $282.6M

Similar grant size

The Ayco Charitable Foundation15,303 grants · $2.05B
Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral16,278 grants · $1.08B
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund19,135 grants · $6.79B

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.