How much does The Travers Family Foundation give?

The Travers Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $233,772 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Travers Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (36%), Education (25%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are The Travers Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Special Love Inc ($27k), Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation Inc ($26k), The Tacy Foundation Inc ($26k).

Does The Travers Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Travers Family 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 Travers Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Network for Good.

Where is The Travers Family Foundation based?

The Travers Family Foundation is based in VA.

The Travers Family Foundation

The Travers Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Travers Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$234k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$26k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$113kEducation$80kArts & Culture$27kHuman Services$27kCrime & Legal$26kAnimals$17kEnvironment$8kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $3k
$10k–50k9 grants · $230k

$25,600

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE TACY FOUNDATION	$25,600
MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION	$25,600
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY	$25,600
SPECIAL LOVE INC	$25,600
COMFORT CASES INC	$25,600
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICAS	$25,600
MANASSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDU	$25,600
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION	$25,600
THE UCLA FOUNDATION	$25,600
HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE	$1,186
A FOREVER HOME RESCUE FOUNDATION	$1,186
CONGREGATION NER SHALOM	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$91k · 31 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$91k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+20%

Still filing today

52%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

SL
SPECIAL LOVE INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +37%
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +46%
TA
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
7× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +80%

Funded once

CH
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2023 · $1k
YU
YALE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2021 · $1k
WE
WASHINGTON ETHICAL SOCIETY
one grant, 2023 · $1k

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.

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

—

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

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.

—

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Tacy Foundation 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

38 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. 38 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

25/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$108,210Other$82,424Education$36,423Human Services$26,115Arts & Culture$25,750Crime & Legal$25,600Animals$11,693

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.

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.

Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Travers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Travers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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