· Private foundation
The Mary Ann and Lawrence Tucker 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS | $10,000 |
| UPAYA ZEN CENTER | $5,000 |
| INTEGRATED REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES | $5,000 |
| OAKWOOD SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| GREENWICH LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +109% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TGTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +109%
- OSOAKWOOD SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +61%
- TFTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC2× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WORLD COLLEGES CO UWC INTERNATIONALone grant, 2018 · $14k
- TSThe Spikenard Farm Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +39%
- MCMENNONITE CENTRAL-EARTH QUAKE RELIEFone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
To facilitate the developement of sustainable food systems by helping groweres to increase their knowledge of agro-ecosystems management and utilization of local and regional marketing strategies.
NOFA-NJ is an Association of consumers, farmers and gardeners, creating a regionally based organic agricultural system which is economically viable. The corporation's goals are the following:- Increase the number of certified organic farms…
Nofa ny is an organization of consumers, gardeners and farmers working together to create a sustainable regional food system which is ecologically sound and economically viable. through demonstration and educational opportunities, we…
The northeast organic farming association of vermont promotes organic practices to build an ecomnomically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.
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…
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
The Newtown Forest Association is the oldest private land trust organization in Connecticut. It has been dedicated for one hundred years to securing for the residents of Newtown and for posterity generally the benefits derived from open…
Stone barns center is a nonprofit farm, education, and research center with a mission to catalyze an ecological food culture. since 2004, we have been driving innovation in sustainable farming practices and mindful food choices that…
Since 2013 The New Garden Society TNGS has trained hundreds of incarcerated and detained students in Greater Boston in the art and science of plants In prisons prison hospitals and youth facilities our students are 13- 80 years old Every…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Spikenard Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH & INFO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY BLACK HERITAGE PROJECT ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Mary Ann and Lawrence Tucker 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.
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Assoc of Connecticut Inc — 5% 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.