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Society of the Trinitarian Family

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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$188kHuman Services$92kEducation$33kHealth$13kCivil Rights$4kInternational$3kEnvironment$1kYouth Development$720Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$884k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE$12,800
Individual grant recipient$12,000
CITIZENS FOR A PRO-LIFE SOCIETY$2,600
THE VIANNEY FOUNDATION$2,500
MARONITE ORD BLESSED VIRGIN MARY$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
UGANDA CATHOLIC COMM OF MICHIGAN$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW$200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $1k → 14%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $500 → 14%HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $500 → 14%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $500 → 14%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $500 → 14%HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $400 → 14%HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $300 → 14%HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $300 → 14%HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $200 → 14%HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $200 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
TN
AL
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$264k · 26 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
35

Total granted

$264k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+1%

Still filing today

31%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • EW
    ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +98%
  • CW
    Children Waiting Everywhere Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +74%
  • HE
    HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW
    6× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARY OF THE HILLS
    one grant, 2021 · $27k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Christ's Servants Abroad

Ministry work abroad

Religion
2
Adore Ministries Inc

The Organization's mission is embodied in Paragraph 2097 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. To invite peope to bow their lives in worship of God and to live for Him alone. We accomplish this daunting task through outreaches of…

Religion
3
Orthodox Vocation and Ministry Foundation
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4
Prophetic Life Ministry

Promoting the gospel of jesus christ with prophetic ministry

Religion
5
Pew Ministries Inc

Supports Catholic Charities in the West Tennessee Catholic Diocese and in other Catholic Dioceses across the country through speaking engagements, pilgrimages, conference and podcasts.

Religion
6
Italy for Christ Inc

Evangelism in Italy

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7
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
8
Light of the World Evangelization Ministries

Parish based evangelization ministries

Religion
9
Servants of Mary
Religion
10
Center for European Church Planting

To promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ and establish churches in European countries

Religion
11
Imago Dei Ministries
—
12
Association of Us Catholic Priests

Support & welfare of u.s. catholic clergy

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eternal Word Television Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Louis Center. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE: $86,700 · OtherST THOMAS THE APOSTLEIndividual grant recipient: $32,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST MARY OF THE HILLS: $26,695 · OtherST MARY OF THE HILLSCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LANSING: $24,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LANSINGIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LANSING MI: $14,000 · Other+48 more: $99,061 · Other+48 moreVIANNEY FOUNDATION: $6,500 · ReligionETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $3,400 · ReligionCOALITION FOR CANCELED PRIESTS: $1,250 · ReligionTrue Pursuit Inc: $800 · ReligionChildren Waiting Everywhere Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesHIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $1,900 · Human ServicesCitizens for a Pro-Life Society Inc: $3,600 · Civil RightsPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$331,956Religion$11,950Human Services$4,400Civil Rights$3,600Youth Development$3,000Community Improvement$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIANNEY FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 73% of budgetCitizens for a Pro-Life Society Inc: $3,600 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $3,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren Waiting Everywhere Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $1,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR CANCELED PRIESTS: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrue Pursuit Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL SCHOOL OF MISSION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 VIANNEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Citizens for a Pro-Life Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Children Waiting Everywhere Inc ↗
  • Who funds HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR CANCELED PRIESTS ↗

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.

Timothy and Sheila Patton Family Charitable TrustMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Timothy and Sheila Patton Family Charitable Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Society of the Trinitarian Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Society of the Trinitarian Family. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Society of the Trinitarian Family?

    Find your warmest path to Society of the Trinitarian Family 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 65 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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