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Edward L Hutton Foundation

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.

$851k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$3.7MArts & Culture$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHuman Services$470kHealth$340kEnvironment$246kReligion$235kHousing & Shelter$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $234k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $595k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY MATTERS$215,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - HUTTON FAMILY STUDY ABROAD$100,000
WESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR THE NY CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$70,000
TREPANY HOUSE$60,000
LAWRENCE COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS (MOUNTAIN OUTREACH)$50,000
THE RIVERS SCHOOL$50,000
KENYON COLLEGE-JENNIE HUTTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND$40,000
THE KENYON FUND$20,000
ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST$15,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$15,000
BLOOMFIELD JUNIORSENIOR HIGH SCHOOL$14,000
NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC CHESS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER$10,000
CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $445k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER: $120k → 16%MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER: $120k → 16%MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER: $100k → 16%MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER: $75k → 16%THE BUFFALO IMMIGRANT LEADERSHIP TEAM INC: $15k → 13%THE CHILDRENS ROOM: $10k → 8%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

AK
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
RI
CA
KY
TN
NC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.5M · 43 repeat orgs$301k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
20

Total granted

$7.5M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+32%

Still filing today

58%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

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

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $600k · revenue +97%
  • TH
    TREPANY HOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $530k · revenue +10% · 90% of their budget
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    6× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TK
    THE KENYON FUND - JENNIE HUTTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $54k
  • TR
    THE RIVERS SCHOOL - ELH SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • GF
    GAMALIEL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +108%

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
Boston Architectural College

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

2
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
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
Amherst College Trustees

Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rivers School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Lyndhurst Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Addiction Recovery ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%44%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%52%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

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

40 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
27/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY MATTERS — $696,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY MATTERSEducation Matters Inc — $690,000 · OtherEducation Matters IncLAWRENCE COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY — $450,000 · OtherLAWRENCE COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORYTHE RIVERS SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND — $377,000 · OtherTHE RIVERS SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDKENYON COLLEGE-JENNIE HUTTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $350,000 · OtherKENYON COLLEGE-JENNIE HUTTON SCHOLARSHIP FUNDINDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - HUTTON FAMILY STUDY ABROAD — $300,000 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - HUTTON FAMILY STUDY ABROADCUMBERLAND COLLEGE MOUNTAIN OUTREACH PROGRAM — $250,000 · OtherWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR THE NY CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST — $210,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS (MOUNTAIN OUTREACH) — $200,000 · OtherTHE KENYON FUND — $195,000 · Other+33 more — $1,204,500 · Other+33 moreIndiana University Foundation — $600,000 · EducationIndiana Univer…The Trustees of Princeton University — $315,000 · EducationThe Trustees o…STUDENTS TO SCHOLARS — $40,000 · Education+4 more — $62,000 · Education+4 moreTREPANY HOUSE — $530,000 · Arts & CultureTREPANY H…AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN …FRIENDS OF THE MOZARTINA MUSICAL ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $52,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS O…+4 more — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC — $415,000 · Human ServicesThe Buffalo Immigrant Leadership Team Inc — $15,000 · Human Services+3 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $290,000 · Community ImprovementVOICE Buffalo Inc — $50,000 · Community ImprovementORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST — $139,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $66,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentHUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE INC — $93,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $42,500 · Health
Other$4,922,500Education$1,017,000Arts & Culture$672,500Human Services$450,000Community Improvement$340,000Environment$235,000Health$135,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEducation Matters Inc — $690,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $600,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTREPANY HOUSE — $530,000 over 9y, 90% of budgetMADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC — $415,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $315,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $290,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST — $139,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEADING HOME INC — $95,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE INC — $93,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $66,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Scholastic Chess Foundation Inc — $60,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MOZARTINA MUSICAL ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVOICE Buffalo Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS TO SCHOLARS — $40,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetWELLESLEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $37,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILDCARE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLyndhurst Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Buffalo Immigrant Leadership Team Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE PICTURE HOUSE REGIONAL FILM CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PENNFIELD SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SNOW LIBRARYINC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WELLESLEY METCO INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds Education Matters Inc
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation
  • Who funds TREPANY HOUSE
  • Who funds MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University
  • Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK
  • Who funds ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION
  • Who funds HEADING HOME INC
  • Who funds HUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
  • Who funds National Scholastic Chess Foundation Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MOZARTINA MUSICAL ARTS CONSERVATORY INC
  • Who funds VOICE Buffalo Inc
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds STUDENTS TO SCHOLARS
  • Who funds WELLESLEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC
  • Who funds WILDCARE INC
  • Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL
  • Who funds Lyndhurst Foundation 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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Edward L Hutton Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc26% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc17% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • Academy of Performing Arts Inc2% of income from government
  • Orleans Conservation Trust2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations2% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Edward L Hutton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edward L Hutton Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 69 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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