Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

Tusher Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Science & Tech$3.0MArts & Culture$2.5MHealth$2.1MEducation$1.2MEnvironment$55kHuman Services$15k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$500,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION$500,000
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART$500,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $110k → 8%MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $38k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $750k → 10%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $55k → 7%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $1.0M → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $13k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $750k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $1.0M → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $745k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $500k → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UC BERKLEY FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $545k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $150k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 10%UCSF FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%UCSF FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%UCSF FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $100k → 10%GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $100k → 10%GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $100k → 10%GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $100k → 10%GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $100k → 10%GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $100k → 10%RED TAB FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%RED TAB FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.1M · 8 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$8.1M
$60k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
EducationArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +17%
  • NM
    Nevada Museum of Art
    6× · 2018–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +120%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    4× · 2018–2021 · $86k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • UB
    UC BERKLEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $60k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
10
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $2,965,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESNevada Museum of Art — $2,535,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of ArtUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN …University of Nevada Reno Foundation — $500,000 · EducationUniversity of Nevada Reno Fou…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $145,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE …The Trustees of Princeton University — $86,000 · Education+1 more — $50,000 · EducationGLADSTONE INSTITUTES — $600,000 · OtherGLADSTONE INST…UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $375,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FO…UC BERKLEY FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherUC BERKLEY FOU…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $55,000 · Other+1 more — $15,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$5,500,000Education$2,281,000Other$1,105,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $2,965,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNevada Museum of Art — $2,535,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $145,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $86,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRED TAB FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tusher Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph