New York · Private foundation
The Traphagen 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.
- $251k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,150
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations The Traphagen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 | 33 | $235k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $209k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $282k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $327k | 93% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $171k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Teak Fellowship Inc | $172,800 | 4 | 1% |
| St Lukes Episcopal Church | $130,300 | 4 | n/a |
| The Chapin School Ltd | $68,850 | 5 | 0% |
| East Hampton Healthcare Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $32,655 | 4 | 0% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $29,870 | 4 | 0% |
| Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc | $28,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hobe Sound Nature Center Inc | $21,725 | 4 | 2% |
| Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Brick Presbyterian Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($550k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Traphagen 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: Woodward Family Charitable Foundation · Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust · George L Ohrstrom Foundation · The Krimendahlsaint-Amand Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The James E & Constance L Bell Foundation · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · Mary Jane Hipp Brock Family Foundation · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · Legatus Foundation
How this is measured
About The Traphagen Foundation
- How much does The Traphagen Foundation give?
- The Traphagen Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $251,077 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Traphagen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (12%), Religion (8%), Environment (5%).
- Who are The Traphagen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Teak Fellowship Inc ($173k), St Lukes Episcopal Church ($130k), The Chapin School Ltd ($69k).
- Does The Traphagen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Traphagen 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 Traphagen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Woodward Family Charitable Foundation, Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust, George L Ohrstrom Foundation.
- Where is The Traphagen Foundation based?
- The Traphagen Foundation is based in NY.
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