· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $2,529 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,650 |
| ST LEO FOOD CONNECTION | $1,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $500 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +76% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 16% 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
Backed again, and grew
- MRMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +13%
CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION4× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +76%- MHMERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- MAMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHERN Ngraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +66%
- WTWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +33%
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.
Engaging the community to end hunger
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. the organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
The northwest consumer law center zealously advocates, litigates, and promotes access to justice for low and moderate income clients, and through its education programs, empowers consumers with the knowledge and resources to protect their…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 28 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 CASA DE PEREGRINOS ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHERN N ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County ↗
- Who funds SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Trainor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trainor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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