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Lester K Hutton and Audrey M Hutton Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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

area typical 11%HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $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%ULSTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $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
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.
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
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
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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
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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; 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 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. 9 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 Lester K Hutton and Audrey M Hutton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lester K Hutton and Audrey M Hutton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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, 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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