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Tusher Family Foundation at a glance

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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 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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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:

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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.…

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12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California San Francisco Foundation; 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 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. 9 of the 12 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tusher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tusher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% 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, 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 12 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-PF 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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