How much did THE TRIMAS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THE TRIMAS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2023

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2024

hypenorthridgelongview ministriesattnnineisdpine tree

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $94k
$10k–50k6 grants · $108k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5k

Total assets

Largest grants

STEUBEN TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$37,500
TRAC KC CORPORATION$20,000
COF TRAINING SERVICES INC ATTN JOY BEATTY$15,000
REPAIR THE WORLD$15,000
AVALON HOUSING ATTN SCOTT ELLIS$10,000
DEVELOPING KIDS$10,000
LONGVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$8,000
ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES$7,650
OCAPICA$7,500
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 11093 2024 CHRISTMAS FOOD BOX CO-CHAIR$7,500
SUITE DREAMS PROJECT (ROCHESTER MI)$7,500
PITT HOPKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
RAPTACON 3200 ROBOTICS TEAM$5,000
JOLIET MONTESSORI SCHOOL$5,000
OWASSO COMMUNITY RESOURCES$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

East Texas Community Clinic Inc

Provides access to high quality primary care to any resident in east texas.

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Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development

Volunteer Center of Lubbock Inc

Connect, empower and transform through purposeful volunteerism and leadership development.

Community Improvement

Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc

Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services.

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Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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West Texas Food Bank

The Food Bank is a 501c3 nonprofit, hunger relief organization that distributes donated purchased food to children, families, and seniors through a network of over 100 partner agencies in 19 counties in West Texas

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Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement

United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy

Austin Street Center

Austin street center provides emergency shelter and related services to the homeless.

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Austin-Travis County Sobriety Center

The sobering center provides a safe place to recover from intoxication in lieu of jail or the emergency room and to then be referred to community based resources as needed.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World Inc and the most unlike its peers is Usvmc East Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,537

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

19/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$281,800Human Services$48,000Education$20,000Community Improvement$17,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Employment$7,650Health$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE TRIMAS FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: USVMC EAST TEXAS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~20 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +63% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 883218061 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on USVMC EAST TEXAS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Trimas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Trimas Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE TRIMAS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Trimas Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE TRIMAS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Trimas Foundation?

More from the funding graph