· Private foundation
The Trammell Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Trammell Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Trammell Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $146k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FDTN | $12,000 |
| WESTMONT COLLEGE | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FNDTN | $12,000 |
| SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW | $12,000 |
| RED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE | $12,000 |
| THE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $12,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $12,000 |
| MHS BOOSTER CLUB | $12,000 |
| EMERGE | $7,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +41% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWESTMONT COLLEGE6× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +38%
- SJSt John's School5× · 2017–2021 · $63k · revenue +130%
- HPHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $59k · revenue +588%
Funded once
Washington and Lee Universityone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +15%- EHEPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $11k
YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -7%
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Trammell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trammell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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