Funding search · EIN 453852839 · Boston, MA
The Ruth D Turner Foundation
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 7
- grants reported
- $120,649
- total given
- 2023–2024
- filing years
- $15,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2023–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Grant history
All 7 reported grants, largest first.
- $40,000
Gulf of Maine Research Institute · Portland, ME · 2024
Mapping blue mussel beds in casco bay
- $20,000
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · Woods Hole, MA · 2024
Mesophotic coral microbes and their potential to enhance shallow coral health
- $17,649
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
Scientific and logistical support for the 2023 cashes ledge expendition.
- $15,000
Wells Reserve at Laudholm Kat Libby · Wells, ME · 2023
Support for project titled "blue crabs & bryozoans: investigating marine invertebrates in maine"
- $15,000
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · Woods Hole, MA · 2023
Microbially driven biogeochemical cycling and natural product formation in deep and shallow marine sponges
- $6,500
Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support of research entitled "temperature-dependent growth, size at maturity and reproduction in the blue crab, callinectes sapidus"
- $6,500
The University of Southern Mississippi · Hattiesburg, MS · 2023
Support of research entitled "temperature-dependent growth, size at maturity and reproduction in the blue crab, callinectes sapidus"
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