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Scott & Margy Trumbull 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 $10k11 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $118,000 |
| LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART | $45,000 |
| PROMEDICA FOUNDATION YWCA CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $20,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| NORTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB | $10,000 |
| DAYCROFT SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND | $10,000 |
| GOOD GRIEF OF NW OHIO | $8,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $5,000 |
| BLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY | $5,000 |
| EMERSON SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
| US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES & IMMIGRANTS | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 100% 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
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $487k · revenue +39%
- TTTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +34%
- UOUniversity of Michigan2× · 2018–2019 · $125k · revenue +195% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- AWAFRICAN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $17k
- FWFRANKLIN WELLS FOR THE WORLD FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -87%
- FWFRANKLIN WELLS FOR THE WORLDone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Kirotshe 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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 55 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 DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLENVIEW METHODIST PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds African Wildlife Conservation Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN WELLS FOR THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KRASL ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds Homestretch Inc ↗
- Who funds 826 MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds ZIMBABWE RHINO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds KIROTSHE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The Martin Family Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · Premier Bank Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Scott & Margy Trumbull 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.
- Chesapeake Bay 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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