· Private foundation
The William R & Ruth D Cuming Charitable 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, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $20,000 |
| MORGAN STANLEY DW INC | $15,000 |
| THE BELMONT DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| THE DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITURE | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC | $5,000 |
| ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION | $3,400 |
| THE CHILDREN'S ROOM | $3,000 |
| SIMMONS COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BDBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $293k · revenue +64%
Trustees of Tufts College7× · 2017–2023 · $181k · revenue +50%
MILTON ACADEMY6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- MRMIT RSO GIFT RECEIPTSone grant, 2017 · $40k
- MTMARTIN TRUST CENTER FOR MIT ENTREPRENEURSHIPone grant, 2018 · $20k
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
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)
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 18 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 BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds LYME AWARENESS OF CAPE COD 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William R & Ruth D Cuming Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William R & Ruth D Cuming Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Riverside Community Care Inc: 58% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
- Assumption University: 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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