· Private foundation
Jim and Carol Trawick 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| THE ABLE FOUNDATION | $4,213 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,017 |
| SECOND CENTURY PROJECT | $250 |
| RAINBOW FAMILIES | $250 |
| OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC | $250 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY HALL OF FAME | $250 |
| EMPOWERING THE AGES | $250 |
| SHEPHERD'S TABLE INC | $250 |
| CIESLA FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY19–22, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +130% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- STSTORY TAPESTRIES INC5× · 2019–2023 · $627k · revenue +157% · 48% of their budget
- LALATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER4× · 2019–2023 · $271k · revenue +26%
- IIIDENTITY INC5× · 2019–2023 · $260k · revenue +255%
Funded once
- ACASPIRE COUNSELINGCHILD CENTER AND ADULT SERVICESone grant, 2019 · $100k
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESSone grant, 2019 · $83k
- THTOGETHER HELPING UNITE GOD'S SONS INCone grant, 2019 · $64k
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.
The organizations mission is to prepare emerging and existing leaders to understand local issues, grow their leadership skills and connect with others to better serve montgomery county.
To close the opportunity divide by providing first-generation-to-college young adults in Montgomery County (ages 18-25) with the professional development, resources, and individual support needed to pursue higher education or career-based…
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.
Assist the Montgomery County WIB, in expanding the Public Workforce Development System in the county, through serving and connecting job seekers and businesses.
The DMV Music Academy exists to expose, engage, and enrich young people through the transformative power of music.
Provide education, training & services that promote positive economic mobility. Our programs & services in the Maryland and Washington, DC area assist low-to-moderate income youth & adults & include workforce training, college & career…
Imagination stage of washington, dc, inc. empowers all young people to discover their voice and identity through performing arts education and professional theatre.
To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.
To promote economic and workforce development strategies that assure full inclusion of individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Identity Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Open Door Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 70 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 STORY TAPESTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CHANGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS ↗
- Who funds SO WHAT ELSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN WHO CARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSTREAM INC ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds KindWorks Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND YOUTH BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · WorkSource Montgomery Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Mead Family Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Nora Roberts Foundation · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc
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 Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- Artpreneurs Inc — 18% of income from government
- Story Tapestries Inc — 16% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- Maryland Youth Ballet Inc — 6% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Action Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% 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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