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William O Nutting Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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William O Nutting Family Foundation Inc

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.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$30k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$354kArts & Culture$47kHealth$34kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$21kCrime & Legal$8kInternational$6kSocial Science$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
T ROWE PRICE CHARITABLE$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$25,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$16,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$5,000
BRAVE BEHIND BARS$5,000
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS$5,000
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION$5,000
WVU FOUNDATION$5,000
THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING$5,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$5,000
THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUMS AND FOUNDATION$5,000
UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER$5,000
THE STEAM CONNECTION$2,500
THE HARVARD LAMPOON TRUST$2,500
ANITABORG$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.

area typical 11%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
WV
MD
DC
AL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 39% of William O Nutting Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

William O Nutting Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$245k · 7 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$245k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalCivil 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

  • TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $98k · revenue +8%
  • NY
    New York University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $92k · revenue +45%
  • JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +159%
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +11%
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
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
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
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
4
Boston Architectural College

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

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5
United States Naval Institute

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.

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6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
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
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

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

Education
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
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
12
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Soup Kitchen of Greater Wheeling Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 26 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $135,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $98,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYNew York University: $92,000 · EducationNew York UniversityUCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $14,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationT ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyHARVARD LAMPOON TRUST: $2,500 · PhilanthropyASPEN ART MUSEUM: $12,000 · Arts & CultureHARVARD LAMPOON INC: $11,949 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $5,000 · OtherTHE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC: $5,000 · OtherBRAVE BEHIND BARS: $5,000 · OtherTHE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUMS AND FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $5,000 · OtherThe Steam Connection: $2,500 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,500 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Human ServicesCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $6,000 · International
Education$359,000Philanthropy$32,500Arts & Culture$32,449Health$29,000Other$36,000Human Services$21,000International$6,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $98,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $92,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetT ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHARVARD LAMPOON INC: $11,949 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD LAMPOON TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,000 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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 William O Nutting Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William O Nutting Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to William O Nutting Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to William O Nutting Family Foundation Inc 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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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