· Private foundation
Tuckerman 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY(TEXAS) | $20,000 |
| TREES FOR HOUSTON | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $10,000 |
| THE MENIL COLLECTION | $9,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $5,160 |
| BREAKTHROUGH TD1 (FORMERLY JDRF) | $5,000 |
| GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL | $3,810 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ROCKEND INC | $2,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $1,505 |
| ZERO LINE(UKRAINE FRONTLINE WORKER SUPPORT) | $1,000 |
| ST BERNARDS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| PROCTOR ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
43 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFriends of Acadia8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +98%
- TFTrees For Houston8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +133%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D6× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY(TEXAS)-CAPITAL CAMPAIGNGREATER HOUSTON RESILIENCEone grant, 2022 · $8k
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +180%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 76 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ROCKENDINC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Pennys Flight Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Susanna Porter & James Clark Giving Fund · The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family Foundation Inc · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Colket Family Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Wt & Louise J Moran Foundation · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · Ethel D Colket Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tuckerman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tuckerman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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