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Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

$247M
Granted FY2025still arriving
149
Grants FY2025still arriving
36
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$102MScience & Tech$88MEducation$23MCommunity Improvement$6.0MFood & Nutrition$2.8MInternational$2.5MPublic Benefit$1.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 149 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 149 grants below total $38,276,088, the rows itemized in this filing. The $247,147,340 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $208,871,252 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k61 grants · $7.4M
  • $250k+34 grants · $29M
$76,881
Median grant
36
States reached
$4.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tufts Medical Center$10,062,485
Mass General Hospital$2,542,813
University of Massachusetts$1,376,545
Mass Institute of Technology$1,134,073
Brigham & Women's Hospital$1,090,427
Northeastern University$1,057,726
Texas A&M AGRILIFE Research$707,531
Catholic Relief Services$683,998
University of Washington$675,316
Cleveland Clinic Foundation$632,231
Washington University$624,601
University of California Davis$575,453
State of Wisconsin$565,711
Tetra Tech ARD$517,650
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute$516,929
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 (FY17–25, $515k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Action for Enterprise Inc: $89k → 7%Center for Rural Strategies: $15k → 29%Child Trends Inc: $48k → 8%Center for Rural Strategies: $15k → 29%Tides Center: $72k → 10%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $9k → 14%Child Trends Inc: $43k → 8%Tides Center: $8k → 10%Action for Enterprise Inc: $11k → 7%Child Trends Inc: $24k → 8%Child Trends Inc: $20k → 8%Seven Hills Foundation: $12k → 11%Seven Hills Foundation: $9k → 11%Seven Hills Foundation: $6k → 11%The Children's Aid Society: $11k → 17%Institute for Nonprofit Practice: $23k → 7%Community Servings Inc: $64k → 16%Community Servings Inc: $14k → 16%Community Servings Inc: $12k → 16%Action for Boston Community Development: $9k → 16%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
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$204M · 250 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

250 repeat relationships: 117 still active in FY2025, 133 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

250
70

Total granted

$204M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+34%

Still filing today

57%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
EducationHealthInternationalScience & TechHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +110%
  • JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +41%
  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • NL
    NATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +2%
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $455k
  • T1
    THE 100 MILE CLUB INC
    one grant, 2017 · $323k · revenue -22% · 30% of their budget
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.

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Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
2
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
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
4
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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5
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
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Manhattanville University

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

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Kentucky Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Deep Springs International. 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

213 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 213 of the 352 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
207/213
Grantees still filing
162/213
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INC: $66,401,423 · OtherTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $6,050,798 · Other+109 more: $77,858,146 · Other+109 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $8,815,949 · EducationMassachusetts Institute…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4,640,114 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,356,674 · EducationPresident and Fellows o…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,177,613 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSIT…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,701,896 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,484,309 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $1,866,870 · EducationCornell University: $1,712,042 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,709,620 · Education+39 more: $16,324,764 · Education+39 moreTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $3,301,539 · HealthMaineHealth: $2,763,576 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $1,943,194 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,369,599 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,262,131 · HealthTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $677,984 · HealthGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $611,254 · HealthFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $584,162 · Health+16 more: $4,399,932 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,315,942 · Community ImprovementMEDICAL STAFF OF HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $738,185 · Community ImprovementKEYAH ADVANCED RURAL MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE: $257,400 · Community Improvement+2 more: $216,238 · Community ImprovementThe Rand Corporation: $1,615,875 · Public BenefitNATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $528,641 · Science & TechResearch Triangle Institute: $507,392 · Science & TechTERC INC: $442,326 · Science & TechMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory: $327,616 · Science & TechBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $301,069 · Science & TechGENEVA FOUNDATION: $130,083 · Science & TechHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $845,703 · PhilanthropyADA Forsyth Institute Inc: $740,773 · PhilanthropyBunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc: $177,570 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USA: $120,000 · Philanthropy
Other$150,310,367Education$46,789,851Health$16,913,371Community Improvement$3,527,765Public Benefit$2,615,875Science & Tech$2,237,127Philanthropy$1,884,046

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $8,815,949 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4,640,114 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $3,541,361 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,356,674 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $3,301,539 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,177,613 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth: $2,763,576 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,701,896 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,484,309 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,381,886 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,315,942 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,943,194 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $1,866,870 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $1,712,042 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,709,620 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $1,615,875 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,379,852 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,369,599 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,262,131 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,197,496 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,030,314 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $951,025 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $931,146 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $894,327 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $845,703 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $822,777 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetADA Forsyth Institute Inc: $740,773 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMEDICAL STAFF OF HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $738,185 over 3y, 35% of budgetTURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $727,319 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $712,787 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $707,509 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $685,179 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $677,984 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $637,927 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $611,254 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $584,162 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetNew York University: $578,751 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $549,560 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $541,480 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $528,641 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College: $528,631 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $507,392 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREUBEN V ANDERSON CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $500,637 over 3y, 50% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $500,605 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $496,961 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $460,425 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $458,116 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA 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.

Trustees of Boston Un…Johns Hopkins Univers…The Trustees of Colum…Vanderbilt University…The George Washington…Brown UniversityYale UniversityUniversity of Pittsbu…Gates FoundationPresident and Fellows…Northeastern Universi…Cornell University
Trustees of Boston UniversityMA53.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of Boston University · Johns Hopkins University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The George Washington University · Brown University · Yale University · University of Pittsburgh · Gates Foundation · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Northeastern University · Cornell University

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 Trustees of Tufts College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustees of Tufts College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Child Trends Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Terc Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Ada Forsyth Institute Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Baystate Medical Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Lahey Clinic Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Asian Women for Health Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 352 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 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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