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The Trillium Foundation at a glance

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The Trillium 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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$52kInternational$40kEducation$32kAnimals$25kArts & Culture$20kHuman Services$18kEnvironment$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,500
COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MI$5,000
BRIDGES TO MALAWI$2,500
AQUINAS COLLEGE$2,250
ST CECELIA MUSIC CENTER$2,000
SOUTHEAST LAND TRUST OF NEW$1,000
FRANCISCAN LIFE PROCESS CENTER$1,000
DEVOS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
NAMI NEW HAMPSHIRE$1,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000
BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER$500
RUNNING IN SILENCE$500
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 (FY18–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% 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: $3k → 10%WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT: $2k → 5%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $2k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT: $1k → 5%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $1k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT: $750 → 5%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $750 → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $750 → 7%THE KEY COLLECTIVE: $2k → 5%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $750 → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
TN
DC
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$189k · 31 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
19

Total granted

$189k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

65%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • BT
    BRIDGES TO MALAWI
    8× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +11%
  • SC
    ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +20%
  • JB
    JOHN BALL ZOO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • CH
    COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • EG
    EAST GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

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
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
4
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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5
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
6
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
7
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
8
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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9
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
10
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
11
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
12
Hospice of Michigan Inc

Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wills Eye Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. 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

32 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. 32 of the 53 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHEAST LAND TRUST OF NEW: $7,500 · OtherSOUTHEAST LAND TRUST OF NEWCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MI: $6,000 · OtherCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MINORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION IN…GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC: $3,500 · OtherFRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,250 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF: $3,000 · OtherSTRAWBERRY BANKE: $3,000 · OtherNAMI NEW HAMPSHIRE: $2,500 · OtherEAST GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY: $2,500 · OtherNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $2,500 · Other+18 more: $22,250 · Other+18 moreBRIDGES TO MALAWI: $33,000 · HealthBRIDGES TO MALAWICOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $25,000 · HealthCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WES…THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING: $8,000 · HealthTHE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNINGAquinas College: $16,270 · EducationAquinas CollegeWilliams College: $10,000 · EducationWilliams CollegeWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · EducationWILLS EYE FOUNDA…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,250 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER T…+1 more: $500 · EducationBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $9,250 · Human ServicesBAXTER COMM…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,250 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…New Hampshire Catholic Charities: $4,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampshi…WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT: $3,250 · Human ServicesWOMENADE OF…KEY COLLECTIVE: $1,500 · Human ServicesKEY COLLECT…+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER: $16,000 · Arts & CultureST CECILI…Friends of The Music Hall: $3,500 · Arts & CultureFriends o…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureJOHN BALL ZOO: $11,000 · AnimalsDETROIT PIT CREW DOG RESCUE: $1,250 · AnimalsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,750 · InternationalEsthers Hope Ministries Inc: $1,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · International
Other$74,500Health$66,000Education$36,020Human Services$24,750Arts & Culture$20,000Animals$12,250International$8,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIDGES TO MALAWI: $33,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetAquinas College: $16,270 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN BALL ZOO: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $9,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING: $8,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of The Music Hall: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT: $3,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI NEW HAMPSHIRE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PIT CREW DOG RESCUE: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEsthers Hope Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLEAGUE OF MICHIGAN BICYCLISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $1,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SWEET HOUSE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 BRIDGES TO MALAWI ↗
  • Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Aquinas College ↗
  • Who funds ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of The Music Hall ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NAMI NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BISSELL Pet Foundation ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds KEY COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT PIT CREW DOG RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Esthers Hope Ministries 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.

Grand Rapids Communit…The Korff FoundationSteve & Amy Van Andel…The Meijer FoundationPeter C & Emajean Coo…The Wege FoundationTHE PETER and JOAN SE…Daniel & Pamella Devo…WK Kellogg FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…Dick and Betsy Devos …Frey Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Korff Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Wege Foundation · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey 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 Trillium Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trillium Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 53 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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