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Stephen and Alice Cutler Family Foundation Trust at a glance

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Stephen and Alice Cutler Family Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$163k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$604kHealth$386kEducation$90kHuman Services$27kHousing & Shelter$26kArts & Culture$15kInternational$13kYouth Development$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$80,000
2LIFE COMMUNITIES$25,000
DANA FARBER$20,000
NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT$10,000
CONCERT AGAINST CANCER$5,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL$3,000
FURGET ME NOT$3,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$2,500
AGAHOZO SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE$2,500
YONKERS PARTNERS IN ED$2,500
HEAR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$2,500
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $6k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $4k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
VA
MD
AZ
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$575k · 15 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
21

Total granted

$575k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+18%

Still filing today

73%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DI
    DANA-FARBER INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +94%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $130k · revenue +162%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • TI
    TEMPLE ISREAL
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
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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5
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
6
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

—
7
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
8
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
9
Peter Cohen Foundation
Health
10
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
11
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc

MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…

Health
12
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Thayer Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Schechter 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

22 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. 22 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $600,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyDANA-FARBER INC: $180,000 · OtherDANA-FARBER INCIndividual grant recipient: $64,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+20 more: $50,650 · Other+20 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $130,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer…NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $64,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND LIFE F…Concert Against Cancer: $7,500 · Health+2 more: $4,500 · HealthTrustees of Tufts College: $55,000 · EducationYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $9,000 · EducationAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $8,000 · EducationHEAR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · EducationErikson Institute: $3,500 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · Education2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $23,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$602,000Other$294,650Health$206,000Education$83,500Housing & Shelter$25,000Human Services$23,500Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $600,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $180,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $64,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetConcert Against Cancer: $7,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetHEAR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetErikson Institute: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Run: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECURED FUTURES INC: $500 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.

Boston Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Stephen and Alice Cutler Family Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen and Alice Cutler Family Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
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 40 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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