· Private foundation
The Train Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Satilla Riverkeeper | $4,420 |
| St Pauls Episcopal Church | $3,675 |
| Saint Peter Church | $3,080 |
| King of Peace Episcopal Church | $1,025 |
| Episcopal High School | $550 |
| The Colony Foundation | $550 |
| Gallery on the Green | $500 |
| Center for Sustainable Coast | $450 |
| St Marys Little Theater | $350 |
| Yale University | $250 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $175 |
| Individual grant recipient | $170 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | $150 |
| Ducks Unlimited | $150 |
| Compassion and Choices | $125 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 7 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRSatilla Riverwatch Alliance Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +18%
- TPTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +57%
- DODefenders of Wildlife7× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- CCCatholic Charity Reliefone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 115 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Center for Sustainable Coast ↗
- Who funds Satilla Riverwatch Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds LIFE ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds COLONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Federation ↗
- Who funds THE WHALE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Train Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Train Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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