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Marguerite Traphagen Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2026
8
Organizations funded FY2025
13%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$18,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 14
FY2020 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$552k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 13% of the organizations Marguerite Traphagen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving8$33k38%
FY20258$40k13%
FY202414$32k36%
FY202311$31k45%
FY20228$38k13%
FY20217$33k0%
FY20208$39kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$41kFood & Nutrition$19kReligion$18kAnimals$16kHuman Services$12kHealth$9kInternational$6kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rochester Children's Scholarship Fund Inc$55,500312%
Open Door Mission Inc$20,9007n/a
Foodlink Inc$18,60060%
Catholic Charities Family & Community Services$11,8006n/a
Rochester Hope for Pets$8,90052%
Save The Children Federation Inc$5,00010%
Hobart and William Smith Colleges$4,50040%
Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester$3,50020%
Benincasa Inc$3,00031%
Al Sigl Foundation Inc$1,5001n/a
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All grantees of Marguerite Traphagen Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rochester Children's Scholarship Fund Inc$55,500312%
Open Door Mission Inc$20,9007n/a
Foodlink Inc$18,60060%
Catholic Charities Family & Community Services$11,8006n/a
Rochester Hope for Pets$8,90052%
Save The Children Federation Inc$5,00010%
Hobart and William Smith Colleges$4,50040%
Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester$3,50020%
Benincasa Inc$3,00031%
Al Sigl Foundation Inc$1,5001n/a
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$1,30010%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$1,30010%
Mr Grey's Strays Inc$1,00020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marguerite Traphagen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRochester Children's Scholarship Fund Inc: $55,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetFoodlink Inc: $18,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Hope for Pets: $8,900 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHobart and William Smith Colleges: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBenincasa Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMr Grey's Strays Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Marguerite Traphagen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marguerite Traphagen Foundation 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.

About Marguerite Traphagen Foundation

How much does Marguerite Traphagen Foundation give?
Marguerite Traphagen Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $33,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
What does Marguerite Traphagen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (19%), Food & Nutrition (9%), Religion (8%).
Who are Marguerite Traphagen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Rochester Children's Scholarship Fund Inc ($56k), Open Door Mission Inc ($21k), Foodlink Inc ($19k).
Does Marguerite Traphagen Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marguerite Traphagen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marguerite Traphagen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc, Rochester Area Community Foundation, Network for Good.
Where is Marguerite Traphagen Foundation based?
Marguerite Traphagen Foundation is based in TX.

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 23 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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