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Lester K Hutton and Audrey M Hutton Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$750k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$161k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$75,000
HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM$75,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$75,000
ULSTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$75,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$75,000
WILDERNESS SOCIETY$75,000
NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$75,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$75,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$75,000
FRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON$75,000
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ULSTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75k → 16%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $75k → 17%NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $75k → 28%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $75k → 6%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $75k → 7%HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $75k → 16%NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $75k → 14%WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $75k → 14%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.

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
National Council for Preservation Education
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Riverkeeper Inc

Protects and restores the hudson river from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies.

Environment
5
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
6
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States

The national trust for historic preservation in the united states protects significant places representing our diverse cultural experiences by taking direct action and inspiring broad public support.

Arts & Culture
7
American Conservation Association Inc
8
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
9
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

10
National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States

Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.

Arts & Culture
11
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
12
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ulster County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON — $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $75,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY — $75,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYUlster County Historical Society — $75,000 · OtherUlster County Historical SocietyTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $75,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $75,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCI…HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM — $75,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON RIVE…NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $75,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WI…
Other$375,000Environment$225,000Arts & Culture$75,000Animals$75,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON — $75,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM — $75,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Lester K Hutton and Audrey M Hutton Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s 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 · 0–25%
    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.

    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 10 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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