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Pauline Smith Memorial Tuw

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$168k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$225kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$168,036
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT GREYLOCK REGIONAL SCHOOL$168,036
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $625 → 11%SMITH COLLEGE: $2k → 12%MOUNT GREYLOCK REGIONAL SCHOOL: $168k → 12%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%CARLETON COLLEGE: $625 → 11%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $1k → 14%HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $900 → 10%PITZER COLLEGE: $625 → 14%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1k → 7%BARD COLLEGE: $500 → 9%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $2k → 14%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $3k → 16%BARNARD COLLEGE: $2k → 17%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 7%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $2k → 9%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $2k → 10%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $900 → 7%SMITH COLLEGE: $625 → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $900 → 9%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $500 → 12%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

ME
VT
MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NC

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.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19k · 4 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% 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
28

Total granted

$19k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+30%

Still filing today

75%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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

  • Williams College
    4× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +87%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    2× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +47%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • BARNARD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +32%
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
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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6
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
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
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
9
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
10
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut College and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 85 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%0%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr14%86%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%0%20–35yr14%8%35–55yr14%88%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,335

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.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
19/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNT GREYLOCK REGIONAL SCHOOL — $168,036 · OtherMOUNT GREYLOCK REGIONAL SCHOOL+15 more — $20,875 · Other+15 moreWilliams College — $6,300 · EducationWilliams CollegePresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $4,900 · EducationPresident and Fell…Trustees of Hamilton College — $2,700 · EducationTrustees of Hamilt…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $2,425 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF TH…BARNARD COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGECONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEG…Trustees of Tufts College — $2,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts …RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLE…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYNew York University — $1,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University — $1,500 · Education+8 more — $6,550 · Education+8 more
Other$188,911Education$35,875

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWilliams College — $6,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $4,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $2,425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College — $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $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 Pauline Smith Memorial 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 35 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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