How much does Trust for Mutual Understanding give?

Trust for Mutual Understanding reported 72 grants totaling $2,326,903 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 51 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.

What does Trust for Mutual Understanding fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Environment (9%), Animals (3%).

Who are Trust for Mutual Understanding's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Cec Artslink Inc ($645k), Residency Unlimited Inc ($518k), The Ocean Foundation ($402k).

Does Trust for Mutual Understanding fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Trust for Mutual Understanding accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Trust for Mutual Understanding?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Atlantic Arts Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc.

Where is Trust for Mutual Understanding based?

Trust for Mutual Understanding is based in NY.

Foundation Dossiers

New York · Private foundation

Trust for Mutual Understanding

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 72
Grants FY2024: 49
Organizations funded FY2023: 100%
First-time grantees FY2023

Read the full brief

Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $173,000
Organizations funded a year: 49 to 51; FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 18
Total assets, FY2024: $26M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Trust for Mutual Understanding funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	50	$2.3M	50%
FY2023	49	$2.6M	100%
FY2022	51	$2.5M	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.0MEnvironment$1.8MAnimals$589kSocial Science$297kEducation$165kCivil Rights$130kInternational$108kScience & Tech$85kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cec Artslink Inc	$644,800	2	49%
Residency Unlimited Inc	$517,800	2	38%
The Ocean Foundation	$401,817	2	1%
Movement Research Inc	$321,000	2	9%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$257,000	2	1%
The Center for International Theatre Development	$185,000	2	42%
Mongol Ecology Center	$130,000	2	18%
Living Desert The	$120,000	2	0%
Cultural Survival Inc	$105,000	2	1%
Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc	$100,500	2	6%

Show all 63 grantees

All grantees of Trust for Mutual Understanding by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cec Artslink Inc	$644,800	2	49%
Residency Unlimited Inc	$517,800	2	38%
The Ocean Foundation	$401,817	2	1%
Movement Research Inc	$321,000	2	9%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$257,000	2	1%
The Center for International Theatre Development	$185,000	2	42%
Mongol Ecology Center	$130,000	2	18%
Living Desert The	$120,000	2	0%
Cultural Survival Inc	$105,000	2	1%
Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc	$100,500	2	6%
Earthcorps	$100,000	2	2%
Waxfactory Inc	$82,637	2	22%
Winterhouse Institute Incorporated	$80,300	2	n/a
The Drama League of New York Inc	$80,000	2	2%
Partnerships for Nature	$80,000	2	56%
Mid Atlantic Arts Inc	$70,000	2	1%
International Theatre Development Inc	$52,000	1	36%
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide	$50,000	1	1%
Clockshop	$50,000	2	3%
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation	$45,000	1	1%
Wildlife Conservation Society	$45,000	1	0%
Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta	$42,000	1	16%
Beth Morrison Projects Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Wild Salmon Center	$40,000	1	0%
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc	$40,000	1	1%
My Balkans Inc	$35,000	1	42%
Alaska Conservation Foundation	$35,000	1	1%
Transcaucasian Trail Association	$35,000	1	22%
Headlands Center for the Arts	$35,000	2	1%
Blackfoot Challenge Inc	$35,000	1	1%
Gaspard&Dancers Inc	$35,000	2	15%
Emerson College	$30,000	1	0%
Es Experimental Intermedia Foundation	$30,000	2	30%
International Snow Leopard Trust	$30,000	1	1%
Rocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium	$30,000	1	0%
Inclusive Development International	$30,000	1	1%
Wild Sheep Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
Northeast Document Conservation Center Inc	$30,000	1	1%
Tr1314 Multidisciplinary Visual Performances Inc	$30,000	1	3%
Theater Grottesco North America Inc	$30,000	1	46%
Culturehub Inc	$25,000	1	4%
Academy of Bosnia and Herzegovina Inc	$25,000	2	59%
Afterimage Public Media	$25,000	1	3%
Association of American Geographers	$25,000	1	1%
The Performance Zone Inc	$22,490	1	0%
Crude Accountability Incorporated	$22,000	1	4%
Yale University	$20,000	2	n/a
Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England	$20,000	1	0%
New York Live Arts Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Philadelphia Dance Projects	$18,000	1	9%
American Prairie Foundation	$16,000	1	0%
Alma on Dobbin Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Foundation Earth	$15,000	1	3%
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital	$15,000	2	1%
Peacedale Global Arts Inc	$15,000	1	30%
So Percussion Inc	$14,000	1	2%
East European Folklife Center	$10,000	1	2%
Third Coast Percussion Nfp	$10,000	1	1%
Independent Curators International	$10,000	1	1%
Hudsy Community Project Inc	$6,874	1	0%
Theater Et Al Inc Dba the Chocolate Factory Theater	$5,000	1	1%
Friends of the Earth	$5,000	1	0%
The Relationship Performance And Arts Group Inc	$3,500	1	23%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Trust for Mutual Understanding supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 60.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Mid Atlantic Arts IncMD28.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP

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.

Compare Trust for Mutual Understanding with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Trust for Mutual Understanding?

Find your warmest path to Trust for Mutual Understanding through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Trust for Mutual Understanding

How much does Trust for Mutual Understanding give?: Trust for Mutual Understanding reported 72 grants totaling $2,326,903 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 51 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Trust for Mutual Understanding fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Environment (9%), Animals (3%).
Who are Trust for Mutual Understanding's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Cec Artslink Inc ($645k), Residency Unlimited Inc ($518k), The Ocean Foundation ($402k).
Does Trust for Mutual Understanding fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Trust for Mutual Understanding accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Trust for Mutual Understanding?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Atlantic Arts Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc.
Where is Trust for Mutual Understanding based?: Trust for Mutual Understanding is based in NY.