California · Private foundation
The Trainor 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.
- $6k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,529
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $252k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Trainor Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 5 | $6k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $16k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $19k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $8k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $17k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Leos Parish | $19,897 | 6 | n/a |
| Casa de Peregrinos | $8,650 | 2 | 0% |
| Melanoma Research Foundation | $6,285 | 2 | 0% |
| Making a Difference Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Children's Museum of Northern N | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Washington Trails Association | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Action and Contemplation | $2,850 | 4 | 0% |
| Enterprise Community Partners Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mercy Housing Northwest | $1,600 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Leos Parish | $19,897 | 6 | n/a |
| Casa de Peregrinos | $8,650 | 2 | 0% |
| Melanoma Research Foundation | $6,285 | 2 | 0% |
| Making a Difference Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Children's Museum of Northern N | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Washington Trails Association | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Action and Contemplation | $2,850 | 4 | 0% |
| Enterprise Community Partners Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mercy Housing Northwest | $1,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Johns Episcopal Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Salesian Missions Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Safe Streets Campaign | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Sparks Rotary Community Fund | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Trainor 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: Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Trainor Foundation
- How much does The Trainor Foundation give?
- The Trainor Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $6,179 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Trainor Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (46%), Religion (13%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are The Trainor Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Leos Parish ($20k), Casa de Peregrinos ($9k), Melanoma Research Foundation ($6k).
- Does The Trainor Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Trainor Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Trainor Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai, The Albertsons Companies Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Trainor Foundation based?
- The Trainor Foundation is based in CA.
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