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Higgins-Trapnell Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARKS IN THE VALLEY | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NCRC -NATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER | $3,500 |
| SEMPERVIRENS FUND | $3,000 |
| WILDLANDS NETWORK | $3,000 |
| TURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS | $2,500 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $2,500 |
| ICRC | $2,500 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $2,500 |
| LOS PADRES FOREST ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $2,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE | $2,000 |
| ALLAN HANCOCK FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NCNATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +52%
- WEWild Earth Society Incorporated4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +93%
- SFSEMPERVIRENS FUND4× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- IRINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +48%
- NNATURETRACKone grant, 2020 · $4k
- LOLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Direct Relief and the most unlike its peers is The Rona Barrett Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Society Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SEMPERVIRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHTSAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LOS PADRES FOREST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Higgins-Trapnell Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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