Jane W Nuhn Charitable Trust
Poughkeepsie, NY · EIN 14-6134057. Reported 49 grants totalling $2,593,760 to 21 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Jane W Nuhn Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $30,720. Half of everything it gave fell between $11,375 and $85,000; the smallest was $2,211 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Art Effect | Poughkeepsie, NY | $873,000 | 12 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bardavon 1869 Opera House | Poughkeepsie, NY | $700,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bardavon - Hvp | Poughkeepsie, NY | $440,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bard College | Annandale on Hudson, NY | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Scenic Hudson | Poughkeepsie, NY | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Marist College | Poughkeepsie, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fall Kill Creative Works | Poughkeepsie, NY | $41,000 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Open Space Institute | New York, NY | $34,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nubian Directions II | Poughkeepsie, NY | $32,931 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| County Players | Wappingers Falls, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greystone Programs Inc | Hopewell Junction, NY | $29,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hudson River Housing | Poughkeepsie, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Poughkeepsie Alliance | Poughkeepsie, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manchester Firemen's Relief Assoc | Manchester, NH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manchester Firemen's Relief Association | Manchester, NH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Christopher's Inn Inc | Garrison, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Anderson Center for Autism | Staatsburg, NY | $11,454 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health | Lebanon, NH | $11,375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Day One Early Learning Community | Poughkeepsie, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Historic Huguenot Street | New Paltz, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Transart & Cultural Services Inc | West Park, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
8 of 21 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 60%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- The Art Effect
TROLLEY BARN / DEVELOP. DIR. PROJECT - Bard College
OPERATING SUPPORT AND MUSIC FESTIVAL ENDOWMENT - Marist College
RUPERT & MARIE TARVER INTERNSHIP - Open Space Institute
SUPPORT FOR CREATION OF MINNEWASKA VISITOR CENTER - Greystone Programs Inc
ROOF REPLACEMENT VANKIRK HOUSE - Scenic Hudson
REVITALIZATION OF POUGHKEEPSIE'S NORTHSIDE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $586,711 | $30,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $696,049 | $40,360 |
| 2023 | 10 | $648,000 | $35,000 |
| 2024 | 12 | $663,000 | $35,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Jane W Nuhn Charitable Trust has 17 of them, worth $2,104,500. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Bardavon 1869 Opera House | Poughkeepsie, NY | $800,000 |
| Bardavon 1869 Opera House | Poughkeepsie, NY | $600,000 |
| The Art Effect | Poughkeepsie, NY | $150,000 |
| The Art Effect | Poughkeepsie, NY | $100,000 |
| Bard College | Annandale on Hudson, NY | $100,000 |
| Scenic Hudson | Poughkeepsie, NY | $60,000 |
| Bard College | Annandale on Hudson, NY | $50,000 |
| The Art Effect | Poughkeepsie, NY | $50,000 |
| The Art Effect | Poughkeepsie, NY | $50,000 |
| Scenic Hudson | Poughkeepsie, NY | $40,000 |
| Scenic Hudson | Poughkeepsie, NY | $20,000 |
| Poughkeepsie Alliance | Poughkeepsie, NY | $18,000 |
| Poughkeepsie Alliance | Poughkeepsie, NY | $18,000 |
| Poughkeepsie Alliance | Poughkeepsie, NY | $18,000 |
| Fall Kill Creative Works | Poughkeepsie, NY | $10,500 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 98% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $30,720. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Jane W Nuhn Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 112, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12602. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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