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Helen C S Botsford Tuw

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$195k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$195k
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 FY2018–2024.

Education$244kRecreation & Sports$3k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$194,767
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREYLOCK REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL$194,767
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE: $650 → 7%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $650 → 8%SALEM STATE COLLEGE: $650 → 10%UMASS - AMHERST: $1k → 12%GREYLOCK REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL: $195k → 12%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $500 → 17%CARLETON COLLEGE: $500 → 11%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $700 → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $700 → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1k → 7%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%SUNY COBBLESKILL: $500 → 10%RENSSELEAR POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $500 → 14%COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE: $500 → 14%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $500 → 16%ITHACA COLLEGE: $700 → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $700 → 18%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $500 → 12%COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 13%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $700 → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE: $700 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $500 → 11%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 7%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%OBERLIN COLLEGE: $700 → 13%WHEATON COLLEGE: $500 → 7%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $500 → 9%STEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE: $500 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $500 → 9%BOSTON COLLEGE: $500 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $700 → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $650 → 16%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE: $650 → 10%ITHACA COLLEGE: $650 → 16%TRINITY COLLEGE: $650 → 11%LASELL COLLEGE: $650 → 8%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $700 → 12%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $700 → 12%MA COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS FDN INC: $1k → 12%SMITH COLLEGE: $650 → 12%MA COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS FDN INC: $1k → 12%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

VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
MD
SC
FL

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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17k · 10 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
33

Total granted

$17k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+11%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
    2× · 2018–2022 · $3k · revenue +59%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +40%
  • Williams College
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +11%
  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +26%
  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +8%

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.

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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
2
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
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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
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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
5
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
6
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
7
Albright College

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

Education
8
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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9
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Whittier College

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

Education
12
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College and the most unlike its peers is Siena University. 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 84 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%3%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr14%83%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr14%83%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%0/36
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,322

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

36 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. 36 of the 48 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)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREYLOCK REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL — $194,767 · OtherGREYLOCK REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL+12 more — $12,700 · Other+12 moreHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES — $2,650 · EducationHOBART AND WILLI…Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $2,500 · EducationRensselaer Polyt…Williams College — $2,200 · EducationWilliams CollegeDENISON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSI…STEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationSTEVENSON UNIVER…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRU…ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS U…BRYANT UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationBRYANT UNIVERSIT…ITHACA COLLEGE — $1,350 · Education+25 more — $17,450 · Education+25 moreNorthwestern University — $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$207,467Education$36,150Recreation & Sports$2,500

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 budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES — $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE — $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY — $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew England College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Helen C S Botsford 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • Lasell University — 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 0% of income from government
  • Rollins College — 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 0% of income from government
  • Western New England University — 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College — 0% of income from government
  • Stevenson University — 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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