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Mitchell Cutler Charitable Trust at a glance

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Mitchell Cutler Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$223kInternational$63kYouth Development$52kEducation$35kHuman Services$25kEmployment$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARTIN DE PORRES CENTER INC$25,000
ARLINGTON ACADEMY OF HOPE$20,000
FOOD AND FRIENDS$5,000
COMPASS FOR KIDS$5,000
COMMUNITY FORKLIFT$5,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CORNERSTONES INC: $5k → 6%COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $10k → 8%HOMES NOT BORDERS: $5k → 11%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$306k · 4 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +184% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$306k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+184%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RF
    REACH FOR UGANDAINC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +163%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +184%
  • CF
    Compass for Kids Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • UE
    URBAN ED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -40%
  • HH
    HOPE HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -41%
  • CS
    College Success Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +70%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Community Foodworks

Pioneering strategies for an equitable and resilient community-based food system.

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2
Community Kitchen Inc

Provide food and service referrals

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
4
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Community Kitchen

Food service for the poor, economically disadvantaged, and elderly.

Food & Nutrition
6
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
7
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
8
Ny Community Fridge Corp

Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.

Food & Nutrition
9
Montgomery County Community Foundation

The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…

Philanthropy
10
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
11
Community Service Foundation Inc

Provide affordable housing, educational training in homeownership and household budgeting, fair housing counseling, and other related housing services to pinellas county residents.

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12
Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties

To grow community giving by fostering a community of grantmakers, promoting strategic local leadership, and investing in partnerships for the benefit of the community of loudoun and northern fauquier.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Ed Inc; the most unlike its peers is Illinois Realtors Relief Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARTIN DE PORRES CENTER INC: $203,000 · Food & NutritionST MARTIN DE PORRES CENTER INC+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionREACH FOR UGANDAINC: $63,000 · PhilanthropyREACH FOR UGANDAINCLINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $9,728 · PhilanthropyLINCOLN LAND COMMUNI…+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…Compass for Kids Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCompass fo…HOPE HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Bridges Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMES NOT BORDERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE DC CENT…SO OTHERS MAY EAT: $10,000 · OtherSO OTHERS M…St Martin de Porres Center: $5,000 · OtherSt Martin d…ASSOCIATION OF ALBANIAN GIRLS AND WOMEN: $2,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FORKLIFT: $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY F…ILLINOIS REALTORS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherILLINOIS RE…FOOD & FRIENDS INC: $5,000 · OtherFOOD & FRIE…URBAN ED INC: $15,000 · EmploymentCollege Success Foundation: $10,000 · Education
Food & Nutrition$208,000Philanthropy$74,728Youth Development$40,000Human Services$30,000Other$42,000Employment$15,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARTIN DE PORRES CENTER INC: $203,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetREACH FOR UGANDAINC: $63,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetURBAN ED INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCompass for Kids Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $9,728 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOMES NOT BORDERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS REALTORS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Levi Ray & Shoup Foun…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mitchell Cutler Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mitchell Cutler Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mitchell Cutler Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Mitchell Cutler Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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