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Alexander & Ann Manderson Tua

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$100kCommunity Improvement$4kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$260k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT LOWELL$4,500
SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE$1,500
STONEHILL COLLEGE$1,500
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$1,500
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $3k → 7%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY FBO JENAILIS FUENTES: $2k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $4k → 10%STONEHILL COLLEGE: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS: $3k → 12%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $6k → 16%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $2k → 17%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECH: $2k → 14%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $3k → 28%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIV: $3k → 16%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $2k → 13%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE: $3k → 10%SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $3k → 7%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $3k → 9%COLBY COLLEGE: $2k → 12%BABSON COLLEGE: $4k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT LOWELL: $5k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $2k → 12%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $2k → 16%SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $2k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL: $4k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASS: $2k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL: $2k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $2k → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL: $2k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL: $2k → 8%NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 10%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY FBO YASHLY LOPEZ: $2k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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VT
NH
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
RI
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43k · 6 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
21

Total granted

$43k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+22%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • MERRIMACK COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +77%
  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +42%
  • SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • PROVIDENCE COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +29%
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +5%
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
5
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
9
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
10
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
11
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
12
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr14%64%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr14%75%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,334

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERRIMACK COLLEGE — $11,850 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGEEMMANUEL COLLEGE — $7,650 · EducationEMMANUEL COLLEGESAINT ANSELM COLLEGE — $4,300 · EducationSAINT ANSELM COLLEGEPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $4,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGEBABSON COLLEGE — $4,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $2,800 · EducationFordham University — $2,800 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $2,800 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · EducationSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationUniversity of New England — $2,500 · Education+8 more — $13,450 · Education+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL — $9,850 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELLUNIVERSITY OF MASS -DARTMOUTH — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASS -DARTMOUTHUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSUNIVERSITY OF MASS — $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSIndiana University School of Medicine — $2,800 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $2,500 · OtherNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGEMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYBENTLEY UNIVERSITY FBO YASHLY LOPEZ — $2,200 · OtherBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY FBO JENAILIS FUENTES — $2,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST — $2,200 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · OtherBRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,650 · Other
Education$63,650Other$41,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $11,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE — $7,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE — $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE — $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alexander & Ann Manderson Tua 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack College — 2% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College — 1% of income from government
  • Babson College — 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College — 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College — 0% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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