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The Traphagen Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$288kReligion$196kEnvironment$122kYouth Development$90kHealth$77kArts & Culture$71kPhilanthropy$56kAnimals$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,150
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$50,000
ST LUKE 'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$35,300
THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP$26,300
Individual grant recipient$17,500
THE CHAPIN SCHOOL$15,500
NATURE CONSERVANCY$15,450
THE EAGLEBROOK DEV OFFICE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
CAMP SLOANE YMCA$10,500
BOYS AND GIRLS HOBE SOUND$10,000
RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION$10,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$5,665
ALPHASENSE$3,811
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS$3,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$2,550
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%QUALITAS OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $540 → 17%QUALITAS OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $515 → 17%WORLD CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $68k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $53k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $26k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $26k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
MS
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$846k · 34 repeat orgs$377k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
63

Total granted

$846k
$294k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

53%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TT
    THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $173k · revenue +127%
  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    5× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +27%
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    4× · 2022–2025 · $33k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • M
    MFW
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
  • DE
    DUNBAR EARLY LEARNING HOBE SOUND
    one grant, 2022 · $32k
  • TT
    THE TEAK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $26k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Schiff Natural Lands Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $130,300 · OtherST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHBOYS AND GIRLS HOBE SOUND: $71,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS HOBE SOUNDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $45,750 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient: $45,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $40,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherMFW: $37,500 · OtherTHE EAGLEBROOK DEV OFFICE: $35,000 · OtherDUNBAR EARLY LEARNING HOBE SOUND: $32,000 · OtherTHE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $30,666 · OtherANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $28,000 · Other+70 more: $275,615 · Other+70 moreTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $172,800 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOWS…+5 more: $8,513 · Human ServicesTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $68,850 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $1,535 · EducationEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $10,000 · Health+5 more: $4,589 · HealthROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $29,870 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Museum of Natural History: $32,655 · Arts & CultureTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $7,762 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCRESCENDO INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,807 · Arts & CultureHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC: $21,725 · EnvironmentRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,562 · Environment
Other$811,681Human Services$181,313Education$83,385Health$64,589Philanthropy$49,870Arts & Culture$47,724Environment$33,287

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $172,800 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $68,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $45,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $32,655 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $29,870 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC: $21,725 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $7,762 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,955 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DUNBAR CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3,138 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $3,034 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DARBSTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRESCENDO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSCAN-HARBOR INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWings World Quest Inc: $1,457 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $1,382 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,363 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUALITAS OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $1,055 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC: $1,035 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHIFF NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC: $562 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $526 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FORK SEA FARMERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP: $267 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShadhika Project: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
  • Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SLOANE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WASSAIC PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DUNBAR CENTER INC ↗

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.

Woodward Family Chari…Stephanie & Lawrence …George L Ohrstrom Fou…The Krimendahlsaint-A…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The James E & Constan…The David and Elizabe…Mary Jane Hipp Brock …The Frederic C Hamilt…St Clair Charitable T…Legatus Foundation
Woodward Family Charitable FoundationNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Traphagen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Traphagen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 94%
  • Crescendo Inc: 99% of income from government
  • Raritan Headwaters Association: 94% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home