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Eleanor E Farrington Tuw at a glance

· 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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.7MOther$0
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

area typical 7%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%SMITH COLLEGE: $2.5M → 12%SIMMONS COLLEGE: $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%MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
RI
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 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute; 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 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. 12 of the 19 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eleanor E Farrington Tuw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eleanor E Farrington Tuw. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 19 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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