· Private foundation
Robert and Martha Trussell 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLICS COME HOME INC | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON | $5,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE KING | $3,000 |
| DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of your 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 +37% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SSSAYRE SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +32%
- TDTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +38%
- VDVille de Marie Academy Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON Cliffview Retone grant, 2022 · $5k
- LFLIVING FREE MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -32%
- COCOMPANIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRITone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
The veritas catholic information center (vcic) will proclaim the beauty, truth and fullness of the catholic faith in order to fulfill christ's great commission to "go and make disciples of all nations. organized and managed by lay persons…
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
Divine mercy radio is a lay apostolate dedicated to sharing the truth, beauty, love, and joy of the catholic faith through the medium of radio in north carolina.
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
Advancing the catholic faith through education and dissemination of information by operation of websites.
Our mission is to provide content that empowers people to grow spiritually, improve relationships, engage in dialogue and foster collaboration within the Church and throughout society.
Dedicated to answering the call of the late holy father, st. john paul ii, for a new evangelization. our charism in the mission of evangelization is to broadly employ broadcast media to transmit the gospel of jesus christ with the fullness…
Word on fire catholic ministries is a global media apostolate that supports the work of bishop robert barron and reaches millons of individuals to draw them back to or into the catholic faith.
Readers contribute revenues for being informed about the issues concerning the anglican communion in conjunction with the gospel of our lord jesus christ
The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…
To reach as many people as possible with the good news of jesus christ and help them connect with god. we do this by playing positive, encouraging & uplifting christian music and programming, promoting a community of christian faiths,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Answers Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dynamic Catholic Institute. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 Catholics Come Home Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Ville de Marie Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SO ↗
- Who funds LIVING FREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF THE LORD ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THY WILL BE DONE ↗
- Who funds SHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC ↗
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Robert and Martha Trussell 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.
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.