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Tramutoporter Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$144k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$1.3MEducation$886kHealth$575kArts & Culture$397kInternational$121kHuman Services$111kFood & Nutrition$92kPublic Benefit$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$892k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP SUNSHINE$36,070
ROBERT F KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS ITALI$33,892
Individual grant recipient$6,000
ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UN GANCIO AL PARKINSON ASSOCIATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
DON BOSCO MAKULULU FOUNDATION$5,000
MIND BODY RESEARCH GROUP$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ASSOCIAZIONE DAVIDE ORECCHIONI$5,000
REGIS COLLEGE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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 (FY17–23, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%Youth Villages: $5k → 17%New Beginnings: $1k → 13%Bangor YMCA: $10k → 15%Northern Lighthouse Inc: $15k → 15%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

ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
KY
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
HI
TX
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 48 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
102

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+43%

Still filing today

23%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • OP
    OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $320k · revenue +66%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2023 · $246k · revenue +40%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $70k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • LC
    Lwala Community Health
    one grant, 2018 · $105k
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +127%
  • THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +217%
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Western New England University

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…

Education
4
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
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
7
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc. 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

36 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. 36 of the 161 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $1,056,794 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTSTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $245,950 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYHealth eVillages: $135,817 · OtherLwala Community Health: $104,886 · Other+139 more: $1,357,891 · Other+139 moreOGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION: $320,194 · Arts & CultureOGUNQUIT PL…THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER …Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $138,008 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $74,706 · EducationREGIS COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationLASELL UNIVERSITY: $24,992 · Education+2 more: $7,544 · EducationCENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE: $70,241 · InternationalLwala Community Alliance: $37,500 · InternationalWELLSHARE INTERNATIONAL: $10,267 · International+1 more: $408 · InternationalGood Shepherd Food Bank: $62,693 · Food & NutritionCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $36,070 · Recreation & SportsTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$2,901,338Arts & Culture$370,194Education$270,250International$118,416Food & Nutrition$62,693Recreation & Sports$36,070Human Services$31,000

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 budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $1,056,794 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetOGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION: $320,194 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $245,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine: $138,008 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $74,706 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE: $70,241 over 2y, 21% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $62,693 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLwala Community Alliance: $37,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $24,992 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC: $24,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRANNIE PEABODY CENTER: $13,289 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSHARE INTERNATIONAL: $10,267 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $5,044 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlawless Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Beginnings: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCEND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $408 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $250 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.

  • Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Lwala Community Alliance ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS 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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Onion Foundation · Davis Family 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 Tramutoporter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tramutoporter 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Lasell University: 4% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 161 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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