· Private foundation
The David and June Trone Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $496k
- $250k+8 grants · $7.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND | $2,000,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $1,934,102 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $1,011,840 |
| BROOKE'S HOUSE | $975,468 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $565,748 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $480,882 |
| BULLIS SCHOOL INC | $400,000 |
| DWIGHT HALL AT YALE | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF LAW | $200,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC | $95,783 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH AMI | $45,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The David and June Trone Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +43%
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +8%- SHSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW YORKone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- JHJohns Hopkins University Developmenone grant, 2021 · $500k
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINEone grant, 2024 · $325k
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
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 university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College Bound Inc and the most unlike its peers is Imadi Inc. 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 47 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) — 7% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 93 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 FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BULLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT HALL AT YALE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Brothers Academy Incorporated ↗
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: The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Gift Fund · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable 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 The David and June Trone 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- Habcore Inc — 50% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Suburban Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% 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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