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The Trimas 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| DEVELOPING KIDS | $10,000 |
| AVALON HOUSING ATTN SCOTT ELLIS | $10,000 |
| LONGVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES | $7,650 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 11093 2024 CHRISTMAS FOOD BOX CO-CHAIR | $7,500 |
| SUITE DREAMS PROJECT (ROCHESTER MI) | $7,500 |
| OCAPICA | $7,500 |
| LONGVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| OMEGA PSI PHI FRATERNITY INC - CHI BETA BETA GRADUATE CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| RAPTACON 3200 ROBOTICS TEAM | $5,000 |
| JOLIET MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
The sobering center enhances public health and safety by providing a safe place for publicly intoxicated individuals to sober up as an alternative to the emergency room or jail and, where appropriate, to provide a bridge to recovery.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Disrupt generational proverty in TX by empowering vulnerable teens & adults-especially 1st generation college students,low-income persons,& those involved with the crimminal justice system-to attain higher ed. degrees of value,secure…
Empowers older and disabled adults to live independentlly in thier own homes by providing nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, socialization, and community connection, which result in an enhanced quality of life and purpose as…
The volunteer center of lubbock inspires a more engaged community by helping people find their purpose and act on it.
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
Children's advocacy centers of texas, inc. (cactx) is the statewide organization for its 70 children's advocacy centers (cac's) across texas. cactx leads efforts, in partnership with investigatory and prosecution agencies, to pursue…
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas 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.
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 27 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Uplift Partnership ↗
- Who funds AGAPE OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JOLIET MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER ↗
- Who funds SURVIVORS OF BLUE SUICIDE ↗
- Who funds Owasso Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BEATING THE ODDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GET OUT OF THE BUS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITT HOPKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODLEY YOUTH CRICKET ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEALS OF HOPE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organization 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.
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 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.
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