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Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$814kYouth Development$675kHuman Services$157kCrime & Legal$146kHealth$122kReligion$86kEducation$73kRecreation & Sports$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
$250
Median grant
2
States reached
$253k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$45,000
THE ABLE FOUNDATION$4,213
Individual grant recipient$3,017
MONTGOMERY COUNTY HALL OF FAME$250
SHEPHERD'S TABLE INC$250
CIESLA FOUNDATION$250
OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC$250
SECOND CENTURY PROJECT$250
RAINBOW FAMILIES$250
EMPOWERING THE AGES$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $25k → 7%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION: $25k → 8%COMFORT CASES: $250 → 8%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND: $500 → 8%NOURISHING BETHESDA: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 15 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
46

Total granted

$1.8M
$475k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%
+40%

Still filing today

53%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST
    STORY TAPESTRIES INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $627k · revenue +157% · 48% of their budget
  • LA
    LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER
    4× · 2019–2023 · $271k · revenue +26%
  • II
    IDENTITY INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $260k · revenue +255%

Funded once

  • AC
    ASPIRE COUNSELINGCHILD CENTER AND ADULT SERVICES
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
    one grant, 2019 · $83k
  • TH
    TOGETHER HELPING UNITE GOD'S SONS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $64k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Leadership Montgomery County Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Future Link Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Cityworks Dc

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…

Education
4
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

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…

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5
Maryland Lyric Opera
Arts & Culture
6
Mentoring Mentors Inc

Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.

Youth Development
7
WorkSource Montgomery Inc

Assist the Montgomery County WIB, in expanding the Public Workforce Development System in the county, through serving and connecting job seekers and businesses.

Community Improvement
8
Dmv Music Academy

The DMV Music Academy exists to expose, engage, and enrich young people through the transformative power of music.

Arts & Culture
9
The Training Source Inc

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…

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10
Imagination Stage of Washington Dc Inc

Imagination stage of washington, dc, inc. empowers all young people to discover their voice and identity through performing arts education and professional theatre.

Arts & Culture
11
Community Mediation Maryland Inc

To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.

Crime & Legal
12
Maryland Works Inc

To promote economic and workforce development strategies that assure full inclusion of individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Identity Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
20/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROJECT CHANGE: $144,000 · OtherPROJECT CHANGEASPIRE COUNSELINGCHILD CENTER AND ADULT SERVICES: $99,896 · OtherASPIRE COUNSELINGCHILD CENTER AND ADULT S…NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $83,166 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESSKIDS INTERNATIONAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $76,817 · OtherKIDS INTERNATIONAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM480 CARES - MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOLUNTEER CENTER: $69,233 · Other480 CARES - MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOLUNTEER C…TOGETHER HELPING UNITE GOD'S SONS INC: $64,371 · OtherTOGETHER HELPING UNITE GOD'S SONS INCMINISTRIES UNITED SILVER SPRING: $45,000 · OtherMINISTRIES UNITED SILVER SPRINGIndividual grant recipient: $37,000 · Other+46 more: $212,741 · Other+46 moreSTORY TAPESTRIES INC: $627,309 · EducationSTORY TAPESTRIES INCAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY+1 more: $500 · EducationLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $271,222 · Youth DevelopmentLATIN AMERICA…+2 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentIDENTITY INC: $259,550 · HealthIDENTITY INCCONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $145,754 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $250 · Crime & LegalINTERFAITH WORKS: $40,250 · ReligionWOMEN WHO CARE MINISTRIES: $25,000 · ReligionTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY'S PROMISE: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$832,224Education$672,809Youth Development$271,722Health$259,550Crime & Legal$146,004Religion$65,250Human Services$51,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTORY TAPESTRIES INC: $627,309 over 5y, 48% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $271,222 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetIDENTITY INC: $259,550 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $145,754 over 3y, 22% of budgetPROJECT CHANGE: $144,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS: $40,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSO WHAT ELSE INC: $27,165 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN WHO CARE MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLIBERTY'S PROMISE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetARTSTREAM INC: $7,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLEVINE MUSIC INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKindWorks Inc: $6,533 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARYLAND YOUTH BALLET INC: $5,830 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $4,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shepherds Table Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUBILEE ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPassion for LearningInc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNourishing Bethesda Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTPRENEURS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Care Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERING THE AGES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ciesla Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW FAMILIES DC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC C/O GROSSBERG COMPANY LLP: $250 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION YOUTH MEDIA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN WHO CARE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY'S PROMISE ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Co…Clark-Winchcole Found…Arts and Humanities C…The Morris and Gwendo…William S Abell Found…WorkSource Montgomery…The Carl M Freeman Fo…Mead Family FoundationAdventist Healthcare …Philip L Graham Fund …Nora Roberts Foundati…Ronald & Joy Paul Fam…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC40.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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