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Margaret Evans Tuten 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST | $20,250 |
| WOODMERE ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| WAYNE ART CENTER | $6,900 |
| PA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $6,327 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,100 |
| ARTZ PHILADELPHIA | $1,500 |
| WESTERN PA CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| SCHUYLKILL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION | $500 |
| CARE PARTNERS | $500 |
| EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $400 |
| SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI | $250 |
| GLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY | $210 |
| LONGWOOD GARDENS | $185 |
| BRYN MAWR PRESTBYTERIAN CHURCH | $150 |
| CASTLE HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WCWillistown Conservation Trust Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +60%
- WAWOODMERE ART MUSEUM4× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +180%
- WAWayne Art Center5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -5%
- WPWILLOWS PARK PRESERVEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +60%
- MPMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art preserves and presents elements of art and nature that highlight the extraordinary beauty of the Brandywine region in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Brandywine Conservancy protects and conserves…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Our vision is to be a cornerstone of excellence in the stewardship of the environment. clearly identified with our specific mission, we strive to meet the ever-changing needs of the county and to conserve its heritage and essential…
The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 92 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Wayne Art Center ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WILLOWS PARK PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SPEAKUP ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Inliquidcom Inc ↗
- Who funds BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTZ PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education ↗
- Who funds RADNOR CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hamilton Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Penn Fruit Foundation Co Val Rossman · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Communal 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 Margaret Evans Tuten 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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