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Tugg Corp

Innovative funding around entrepreneurship, education, and life experiences

$188k
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2020.

Youth Development$249kEmployment$165kCivil Rights$12kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2020 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $121,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $188,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,700 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 · FY2020

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESILIENT CODERS$65,000
ONE BEAD PROJECT$15,000
MBADIKA$15,000
KODECONNECT INC$15,000
NAACP LDF$11,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATIES CLOSET: $15k → 8%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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$287k · 4 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$287k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+69%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Youth DevelopmentEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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

  • Resilient Coders Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $165k · revenue +24%
  • MI
    Mbadika Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +801%
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $27k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • TI
    THINKGIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +594% · 25% of their budget
  • Catie's Closet Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +38%
  • AR
    ART RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE FOR KIDS (ARCK) INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +2%
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
Digital Ready Inc

Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.

Education
2
Digital Girl Incorporated

Digital Girl, Inc. (DGI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of New York City, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.

Education
3
G Code Inc

At g{code} house, our mission is to bridge the gap in opportunities for underrepresented communities in the tech industry. we believe in the power of education, community, and empowerment to create change and open doors to exciting careers…

Youth Development
4
Kids in Tech Inc

Kids in tech, inc. is a statewide organization that excites, educates, and empowers children across massachusetts to use technology, promoting a positive environment and fostering lifelong interest in stem. through our after-school…

Education
5
Techsgiving Inc

We empower underrepresented to grow their careers and businesses by harnessing in-demand tech skills.

Arts & Culture
6
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
7
Girls Dream Code

Girls Dream Code is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization aiming to empower underrepresented girls, ages 10-24, to pursue an interest in technology by providing free tech and computer science based programs and resources. Our mission is to…

Education
8
Techbridge Girls

Techbridge Girls prepares out-of-school time STEM educators and volunteer STEM professionals with training and curricula to promote access, belonging, and persistence in STEM.

Education
9
Girls in Stem
Human Services
10
Stem Kids Nyc

To bridge the gap between the current school curriculum and the immediate need for schools to prepare students for STEM skills and for jobs that do not yet exist.

Education
11
Girls in Tech Inc

Girls in tech is a social networking enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology fields around the world.

—
12
Building Bridges Education

Building Bridges Education (BBE) is a non-profit organization at the forefront of creating transformative, high-impact programming. BBE is committed to equity-driven initiatives that empower students to embark on journeys of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Science Club for Girls Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mbadika 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

16 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. 16 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Resilient Coders Inc: $165,000 · EmploymentResilient Coders IncMEDIAGIRLS INC: $65,000 · OtherMEDIAGIRLS INCYOUTH CITIES INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherYOUTH CITIES INCORPORATEDTECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherTECH GOES HOME INCORPORAT…INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $6,838 · OtherINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING I…Best Buddies International Inc: $5,000 · OtherTHINKGIVE INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHINKGIVE INCART RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE FOR KIDS (ARCK) INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentART RESOURCE CO…SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $10,330 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE CLUB FO…Y2Y NETWORK INC: $10,100 · Youth DevelopmentY2Y NETWORK INCweTHRIVE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentweTHRIVE INCMbadika Inc: $30,000 · EducationMbadika IncOne Bead Project: $15,000 · EducationOne Bead Projec…KODECONNECT INC: $15,000 · EducationKODECONNECT INCTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $26,557 · Community ImprovementCatie's Closet Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $11,500 · Civil Rights
Employment$165,000Other$96,838Youth Development$60,430Education$60,000Community Improvement$26,557Human Services$15,000Civil Rights$11,500

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 budgetResilient Coders Inc: $165,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetMEDIAGIRLS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $26,557 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne Bead Project: $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetKODECONNECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetART RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE FOR KIDS (ARCK) INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $10,330 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetweTHRIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $6,838 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $5,000 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Cabot Family Char…The Devonshire Founda…Boston After School &…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Boston Foundation IncMA20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · The Devonshire Foundation · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • WeTHRIVE Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Tech Goes Home Incorporated: 10% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Tugg Corp?

Find your warmest path to Tugg Corp 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.

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 17 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $173k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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