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The Tracy Family Foundation at a glance

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The Tracy 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$74kHuman Services$25kEducation$4kEnvironment$4kHealth$2k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$528k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Heritage Classic Foundation$10,000
First Tee Of Pikes Peak$8,500
NPH USA$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: $2k → 7%Syracuse University: $4k → 14%The Deep Well Project: $1k → 10%William Palmer Parks Foundation Inc dba Palmer Land Conservancy: $3k → 9%NPH USA: $1k → 14%Heritage Classic Foundation: $10k → 10%Ronald McDonald House of Southern Colorado: $5k → 9%Heritage Classic Foundation: $10k → 10%Ronald McDonald House of Southern Colorado: $10k → 9%Heritage Classic Foundation: $10k → 10%First Tee Of Pikes Peak: $9k → 9%Heritage Classic Foundation: $10k → 10%Ronald McDonald House of Southern Colorado: $8k → 9%Heritage Classic Foundation: $10k → 10%First Tee Of Pikes Peak: $6k → 9%Heritage Classic Foundation: $9k → 10%First Tee Of Pikes Peak: $5k → 9%First Tee Of Pikes Peak: $5k → 9%First Tee Of Pikes Peak: $5k → 9%First Tee Of Pikes Peak: $4k → 9%Ronald McDonald House of Southern Colorado: $3k → 9%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$117k · 3 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$117k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • HC
    HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +212%
  • LS
    LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +49%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO
    4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +29%
  • WJ
    WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +21%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +62%
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
Home Planet Fund

None

Environment
2
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
3
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
SantaFe Healthcare Inc

The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…

Health
8
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Orphans D/B/a Nph-Usa; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $58,800 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATIONLIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $33,500 · Recreation & SportsLIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF CO…WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATIO…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO: $25,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE C…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Inst…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3,750 · EducationHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $1,000 · International
Philanthropy$58,800Recreation & Sports$36,000Health$26,500Education$3,750Environment$1,000International$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $58,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $33,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Tracy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tracy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of 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, 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.

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 8 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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