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Form 990-PFTax year 2024EIN 45-3852839

The Ruth D Turner Foundation

A private foundation in Boston, MA. Its return for tax year 2024 lists 3 grants and $66,500 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2024 (period ending Dec 31, 2024), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Matthew J Leonard
C/o Verrill One Federal St Fl 20
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 951-1183
[email protected]
Form and materials
Applicants are required to submit an application form, a copy of their organization's IRS 501(c)(3) designation letter and a cover letter summarizing their request for funding.
Deadlines
N/A
Restrictions
N/A

Assets and giving by year

6 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2024

    $66,500

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $680,576

  • Tax year 2023

    $54,149

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $666,262

  • Tax year 2021

    $51,658

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $694,118

  • Tax year 2020

    $40,294

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $644,773

  • Tax year 2019

    $50,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $619,232

  • Tax year 2018

    $39,200

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $632,421

Grants paid in 2024

3 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Gulf of Maine Research InstitutePortland, ME

    Mapping blue mussel beds in casco bay

    $40,000
  2. Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWoods Hole, MA

    Mesophotic coral microbes and their potential to enhance shallow coral health

    $20,000
  3. Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, GA

    Support of research entitled "temperature-dependent growth, size at maturity and reproduction in the blue crab, callinectes sapidus"

    $6,500

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Animals1 grant $40,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Maine1 grant $40,000
  2. Massachusetts1 grant $20,000
  3. Georgia1 grant $6,500

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Stacie KosinskiTRUSTEE Hours 0.3Pay $6,606
  • Matthew J LeonardTRUSTEE Hours 0.3Pay $6,606

The return

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