Georgia · Private foundation
The Train Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $17k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,420
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $542k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations The Train Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $17k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $20k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $8k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $17k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $11k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $11k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $11k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $8k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Peters Church Inc | $33,085 | 5 | n/a |
| Center for Sustainable Coast | $9,040 | 9 | 1% |
| Satilla Riverwatch Alliance Inc | $5,230 | 6 | 4% |
| St Pauls Episcopal Church | $3,675 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Georgia Foundation | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia | $3,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Marys Little Theater Inc | $1,650 | 6 | n/a |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $1,005 | 7 | 0% |
| Aid to the Church in Need Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Life on Wheels | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Train Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Sapelo Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About The Train Foundation
- How much does The Train Foundation give?
- The Train Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $16,940 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Train Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (55%), Environment (19%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Train Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Peters Church Inc ($33k), Center for Sustainable Coast ($9k), Satilla Riverwatch Alliance Inc ($5k).
- Does The Train Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Train Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Train Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sapelo Foundation Inc, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Train Foundation based?
- The Train Foundation is based in GA.
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