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M Alice Warren Tuw

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$137k
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 FY2017–2024.

Crime & Legal$137kEducation$34kArts & Culture$3kScience & Tech$2k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$137,204
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF NEWTON LAW DEPARTMENT$137,204
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $1k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $500 → 8%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $500 → 10%BARD COLLEGE: $1k → 9%PURCHASE COLLEGE STATE UNIV OF NY: $1k → 9%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%BARNARD COLLEGE: $1k → 17%RICE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $2k → 10%MARYLAND UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $1k → 10%UMASS LOWELL: $500 → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $2k → 10%CITY OF NEWTON LAW DEPARTMENT: $137k → 8%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%MCPHS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%MASS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $1k → 16%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $2k → 16%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $1k → 16%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%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
NY
MA
CA
MD
SC
DC
GA
TX

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.
$13k · 4 repeat orgs$162k 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 +30% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
22

Total granted

$13k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • SIMMONS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue -11%
  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +31%
  • UA
    UMASS AMHERST
    3× · 2017–2021 · $3k

Funded once

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +45%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +4%
  • SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +20%

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.

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
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
3
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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4
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
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
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice 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

16 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. 16 of the 29 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF NEWTON LAW DEPARTMENT — $137,204 · OtherCITY OF NEWTON LAW DEPARTMENT+13 more — $16,000 · Other+13 moreSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $3,250 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVER…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $3,250 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEG…William Marsh Rice University — $2,500 · EducationWilliam Marsh …ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $1,650 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIV…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,650 · EducationPresident and …SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVER…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN U…BARD COLLEGE — $1,250 · EducationBARD COLLEGEFranklin Pierce University — $1,000 · EducationWellesley College — $1,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE — $1,000 · EducationMCPHS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · Education
Other$153,204Education$23,050

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Pierce University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCPHS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization M Alice Warren 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University — 0% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 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 29 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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