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The Trachsel Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CCHC FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THE OUTREACH PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| ASPHALT GREEN | $30,000 |
| CAPE COD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER | $20,000 |
| UCONN FOUNDATION AT THE SCHOOL OF LAW | $15,000 |
| HOLY REDEEMER CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED (MABVI) | $10,000 |
| MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| AMYLOIDOSIS CENTER | $7,500 |
| BILLION OYSTER PROJECT | $7,500 |
| CHURCH OF ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA | $7,500 |
| GLEN DOHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (GDMF) | $5,000 |
| CAPE ABILITIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Trachsel 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. Read by recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
- AGASPHALT GREEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $372k · revenue +34%
- OIOUTREACH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +0%
OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA8× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +79%
- SFST FINBARR CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $10k
- LSLAW SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone 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 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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Watch Hill Lighthouse Keepers Assoc. 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 43 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 80 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 ASPHALT GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE CCHC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Winchester Committee for A Better Chance ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds AHIMSA HAVEN ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN DOHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Franconia Ski Club ↗
- Who funds MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · AM Roberts Charitable Foundation · The Peter and Deborah Lamm Foundation R Bradford Malt Et Al Trustees · Lynch Family Foundation · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
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 Trachsel 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.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 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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