· Private foundation
The Nutting 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $730k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BESSEMER TRUST | $110,000 |
| BESSEMER TRUST | $110,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY | $100,000 |
| BETHANY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY | $60,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN WV | $50,000 |
| OGLEBAY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE LINSLY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| T ROWE PRICE | $50,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS FUND | $25,000 |
| PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $25,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $17,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 38% of The Nutting Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 16%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $360k · revenue +16%
Williams College7× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +36%
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY5× · 2018–2024 · $143k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- MPMDDC PRESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $20k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
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 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDIA IMPACT FUNDERS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Stamp Charitable Fund · W E Stone Foundation · Chris Hess Foundation · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · The Driehorst Family Foundation · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Hess Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nutting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nutting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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