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Silver Trumpets Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$271k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$402kEducation$352kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kPhilanthropy$156kHuman Services$50kHealth$45kInternational$39kEnvironment$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $256k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN MISSION OF STEUBENVILLE OHIO$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$26,000
TRINITY UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
BERGHOLZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
DIRTY VAGABOND MINISTRIES$22,500
OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER$15,000
COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH THE WORKER$15,000
FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY$12,500
WORLD VISION$10,000
SAMARITANS PURSE INTERNTL RELIEF$10,000
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY$10,000
MESSY FAMILY PROJECT$5,000
PRESBYTERIAN-REFORMED MINISTRIES IN$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SAMARITANS PURSE INTERNTL RELIEF: $30k → 21%BERGHOLZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $46k → 19%SAMARITANS PURSE INTERNTL RELIEF: $15k → 21%TRINITY UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $35k → 19%BERGHOLZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%BERGHOLZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%TRINITY UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25k → 19%BERGHOLZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%TRINITY UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $20k → 19%TRINITY UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $26k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $26k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $19k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $19k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $19k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $19k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $18k → 19%FRANCISCAN SISTERS TOR: $30k → 19%FRANCISCAN SISTERS TOR: $30k → 19%FRANCISCAN SISTERS TOR: $30k → 19%FRANCISCAN SISTERS TOR: $30k → 19%FRANCISCAN SISTERS TOR: $25k → 19%FRANCISCAN SISTERS TOR: $25k → 19%FRANCISCAN SISTERS TOR: $25k → 19%FRANCISCAN SISTERS TOR: $25k → 19%FRANCISCAN SISTERS TOR: $25k → 19%FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVIL: $30k → 19%URBAN MISSION OF STEUBENVILLE OHIO: $30k → 19%FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVIL: $30k → 19%FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVIL: $30k → 19%URBAN MISSION OF STEUBENVILLE OHIO: $28k → 19%FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVIL: $25k → 19%FRIENDSHIP ROOM: $25k → 19%URBAN MISSION OF STEUBENVILLE OHIO: $23k → 19%DIRTY VAGABOND MINISTRIES: $23k → 19%DIRTY VAGABOND MINISTRIES: $23k → 19%URBAN MISSION OF STEUBENVILLE OHIO: $20k → 19%FRIENDSHIP ROOM: $18k → 19%FRIENDSHIP ROOM: $18k → 19%URBAN MISSION OF STEUBENVILLE OHIO: $15k → 19%DIRTY VAGABOND MINISTRIES: $15k → 19%OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER: $15k → 19%COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH THE WORKER: $15k → 19%OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER: $15k → 19%URBAN MISSION OF STEUBENVILLE OHIO: $15k → 19%FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 17 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$1.3M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+93%

Still filing today

53%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • JC
    JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $184k · revenue +115%
  • FU
    FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +87%
  • VM
    VAGABOND MISSIONS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +509%

Funded once

  • MS
    MARY SEAT OF WISDOM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • WI
    WOMEN IN THE WORD MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -91%
  • SH
    SACRED HEART CENTER OF HOPE
    one grant, 2020 · $2k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

2
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
3
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary Faith International University

Faith evangelical seminary exists to glorify god by equipping christian leaders with a biblical, theological, and practical education empowering them to apply and proclaim the inerrant word of god for world-wide christian service.

Education
4
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
5
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
6
Midwest University

Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…

Education
7
Worldlink International Ministries

Promoting and spreading the good news of jesus christ by expanding, equipping and encouraging the world's indigenous workforce.

Religion
8
Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.

Religion
9
Christian Family Media Ministries Inc

Christian family media ministries, inc operates as christian family radio and has a mission of showcasting god's glory through your story with life changing media.

10
Kentucky Mountain Bible College Inc

To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.

Education
11
God's Bible School College & Missionary Training Home

God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…

Education
12
Trinity Communications

Advancing the catholic faith through education and dissemination of information by operation of websites.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franciscan University of Steubenville and the most unlike its peers is Messy Family Project. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $245,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientURBAN MISSION OF STEUBENVILLE OHIO — $141,500 · OtherURBAN MISSION OF STEUBENVILLE OHIOSAMARITANS PURSE INTERNTL RELIEF — $115,000 · OtherSAMARITANS PURSE INTERNTL RELIEFTRINITY UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $95,000 · OtherTRINITY UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $77,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMUSKINGUM HWC PROJECT — $35,500 · OtherWORLD VISION INC — $38,928 · Other+6 more — $48,500 · Other+6 moreJEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $184,000 · EducationJEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIA…FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE — $127,500 · EducationFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF …College of St Joseph the Worker Inc — $30,000 · EducationCollege of St Joseph the …+1 more — $10,000 · EducationBERGHOLZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $156,375 · PhilanthropyBERGHOLZ CO…VAGABOND MISSIONS — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentPRESBYTERIAN REFORMED MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $41,000 · ReligionMESSY FAMILY PROJECT — $25,000 · ReligionWOMEN IN THE WORD MINISTRIES — $5,000 · ReligionOHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER — $45,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $45,000 · Human Services
Other$796,928Education$351,500Philanthropy$156,375Youth Development$100,000Religion$71,000Health$45,000Human Services$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $184,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetBERGHOLZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $156,375 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE — $127,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVAGABOND MISSIONS — $100,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetOHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER — $45,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN REFORMED MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $41,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $38,928 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of St Joseph the Worker Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMESSY FAMILY PROJECT — $25,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN THE WORD MINISTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSCRIPTURE MEMORY MOUNTAIN MISSION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 JEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds BERGHOLZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE
  • Who funds VAGABOND MISSIONS
  • Who funds OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN REFORMED MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds College of St Joseph the Worker Inc
  • Who funds MESSY FAMILY PROJECT
  • Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC
  • Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WOMEN IN THE WORD MINISTRIES
  • Who funds SCRIPTURE MEMORY MOUNTAIN MISSION

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.

Esther N Simmons Charitable TrustPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Silver Trumpets 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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