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The Travis Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Travis Foundation Inc

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.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$145kEducation$86kArts & Culture$32kPhilanthropy$8kHuman Services$4kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $70,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $80,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$573k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hartford Hospital$30,000
Cornell University$15,000
Boca Raton Museum of Art$5,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center$2,500
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$2,500
Auburn University Foundation$2,500
Cornell University$2,500
Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc$2,500
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art$2,500
Cure Alzheimer's Fund$2,000
Petit Family Foundation$1,500
Wounded Warrior Project$1,500
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$266k · 14 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$266k
$8k

Still filing today

79%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HH
    Hartford Hospital
    5× · 2020–2024 · $108k · revenue +54%
  • Cornell University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $69k · revenue +46%
  • WA
    WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SR
    Sunnyview Rehabiliation Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • SR
    Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • AU
    Auburn Univeristy Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

03Its 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
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
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
7
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
8
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
9
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ron Foley 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.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hartford Hospital: $108,000 · HealthHartford HospitalRon Foley Foundation Inc: $7,500 · HealthRon Foley Foundation IncALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Health+2 more: $4,500 · HealthCornell University: $68,500 · EducationCornell UniversityAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FO…WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $17,000 · Arts & CultureWADSWORTH ATH…BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBOCA RATON MU…Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $8,000 · OtherMemorial …Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation: $5,000 · OtherSunnyview…Sunnyview Rehabiliation Hospital Foundation: $2,500 · OtherSunnyview…Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital: $2,500 · OtherSunnyview…Auburn Univeristy Foundation: $2,500 · OtherAuburn Un…Veterans of Foreign Wars: $2,000 · OtherVeterans …THE PETIT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 · Human Services
Health$126,500Education$83,000Arts & Culture$32,000Other$22,500Philanthropy$7,500Human Services$4,000

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 budgetHartford Hospital: $108,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $68,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PETIT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRon Foley Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Hartford Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PETIT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ron Foley Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $83k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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