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· Private foundation

Eleanor E Farrington Tuw

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Education$2.7MOther$0
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,479,815
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMITH COLLEGE$2,479,815
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 (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%SMITH COLLEGE: $2.5M → 12%MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF: $5k → 16%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $97k → 9%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%WHEATON COLLEGE: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $4k → 10%COLBY-SAWYER COLLEGE: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%BRIDGTON ACADEMY: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $5k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $4k → 13%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $5k → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $4k → 9%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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RI

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 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.

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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
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
3
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
4
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
5
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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6
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
7
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
8
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
9
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
10
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
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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the most unlike its peers is Bentley University. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $2,479,815 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE+10 more — $53,900 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA — $97,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $22,500 · OtherPLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Other+5 more — $24,000 · Other
Education$2,533,715Other$153,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $2,479,815 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridgton Academy — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $3,900 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 Eleanor E Farrington Tuw 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.

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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 0%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University — 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University — 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 19 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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