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The Treadway Foundation-Tr

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.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$285kHealth$250kHuman Services$150kInternational$136kReligion$134kEducation$127kRecreation & Sports$107kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$22,000
BAPTIST HOMES FDN$20,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY PA KEYSTONE$20,000
AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSN$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARD$20,000
BROTHERS BROTHER FDN$20,000
SOUTHMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$20,000
MONTOUR TRAIL COUNCIL$18,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BAPTIST HOMES FDN: $25k → 11%BAPTIST HOMES FDN: $25k → 11%BAPTIST HOMES FDN: $22k → 11%BAPTIST HOMES FDN: $22k → 11%BAPTIST HOMES FDN: $20k → 11%BAPTIST HOMES FDN: $18k → 11%BAPTIST HOMES FDN: $18k → 11%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$1.3M
$25k

Still filing today

73%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $137k · revenue +62%
  • BB
    BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $136k · revenue +202%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $127k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2025 · $25k
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
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
University of Pittsburgh

The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…

Education
3
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
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
7
International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology Inc

The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.

Health
8
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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9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.

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11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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12
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brother's Brother Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC: $148,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INCSOUTHMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $134,000 · OtherSOUTHMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $127,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $126,000 · OtherAmerican Brain Tumor AssociationIndividual grant recipient: $111,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL MS SOCIETY PA KEYSTONE: $72,000 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETY PA KEYSTONEIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherBAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Human ServicesBAPTIST HOME…CARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $137,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE IN…BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $136,000 · InternationalBROTHER'S B…MONTOUR TRAIL COUNCIL: $107,000 · Recreation & SportsMONTOUR T…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $52,000 · Health
Other$743,000Human Services$150,000Arts & Culture$137,000International$136,000Recreation & Sports$107,000Health$52,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC: $148,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $137,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $136,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $127,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $126,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMONTOUR TRAIL COUNCIL: $107,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $52,000 over 3y, 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 BAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
  • Who funds MONTOUR TRAIL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Treadway Foundation-Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Treadway Foundation-Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 12 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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