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The Puth Family Foundation at a glance

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The Puth Family Foundation

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.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MEducation$313kArts & Culture$223kReligion$40kHuman Services$13kHealth$10kInternational$8kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$568k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$25,000
TUFTS COLLEGE$10,000
SHADY SIDE ACADEMY$10,000
AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND$10,000
LOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
HOBE SOUND CUMMUNITY CHEST$1,000
LITTLE COMPTON FOOD BANK$1,000
RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$500
02The need
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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 (FY22–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $3k → 20%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
VA
DC
FL
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$468k · 9 repeat orgs$298k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$468k
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+1%

Still filing today

89%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    3× · 2022–2025 · $145k · revenue +9%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    3× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +3%
  • THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $67k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
    one grant, 2022 · $145k · revenue -31%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $85k · revenue +40%
  • MI
    MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +1%
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
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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2
Albright College

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

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
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
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
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
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
12
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Little Compton Food Bank. 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

29 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. 29 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,043,144 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $85,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTrustees of Tufts College: $144,500 · EducationTrustees of Tufts C…Wellesley College: $85,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationSHADY SIDE ACADEMYBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $16,000 · Education+5 more: $14,000 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $145,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN …THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $67,300 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE…+2 more: $10,500 · Arts & CultureMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · OtherKENILWORTH UNION CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 · OtherPROSPECT PARK THEATRE: $5,000 · OtherTHE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $6,000 · OtherTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHEIGHTS & HILLS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesACCION INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · InternationalPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$1,143,144Education$319,500Arts & Culture$222,800Other$121,000Human Services$12,500International$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,043,144 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $145,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $144,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $67,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCION INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHATUA NETWORKINC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEIGHTS & HILLS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD ELM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 The Puth Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Puth Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 35 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home