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The Trombly Foundation at a glance

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The Trombly Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2018
3
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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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 2018.

Education$9kHealth$5kHuman Services$5kInternational$2kAnimals$2kArts & Culture$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2018 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Albany Academies$7,500
The Irish American Partnership$2,000
Families In Need of Assistance$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Northeastern Assoc of Blind: $3k → 14%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 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
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
2
University At Albany Foundation

The mission of the university at albany foundation is to encourage, receive, accept, hold, invest, and manage money and property of every description, and the disbursement thereof for the promotion, development and advancement of the…

Education
3
University Auxiliary Services At Albany

To provide food and auxiliary services (vending, bookstore, linen, etc) to faculty, staff, and students at the university at albany.

Education
4
Memorial Hospital Albany Ny

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. founded in community-based legacies of compassionate healing, we…

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5
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
6
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
7
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
8
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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9
St Peter's Health Partners

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Health
10
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
11
Hotel Association of New York City Inc

serving the hotel industry since 1878, the hotel association of new york city, inc. is one of the oldest professional trade associations in the nation. its founders mission was to establish an association that would serve as the voice of…

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12
Albany General Hospital Foundation

The foundation's specific purpose is to solicit, receive, and maintain gifts of money and property, and to make decisions on the distributions of such money and property, to support albany general hospital and health svcs in the general…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Albany Academies Inc; the most unlike its peers is Siena University. 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

10 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. 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC: $7,500 · OtherTHE ALBANY ACADEMIES INCThe Bishop's Appeal: $3,694 · OtherThe Bishop's AppealMake A Wish Foundation: $1,500 · OtherMake A Wish FoundationST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · OtherST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCFAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionFAMILIES IN NEED…FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD PANTRIES FO…NORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesNORTHEASTE…THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,000 · InternationalMOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 · AnimalsSIENA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$13,694Food & Nutrition$4,000Human Services$2,500International$2,000Animals$1,500Education$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000Health$1,000

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 budgetTHE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

David & Candace Weir …Review FoundationThe Community Foundat…Price Chopper's Golub…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Bernard F Conners…Keeler Motor Car Comp…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
David & Candace Weir FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David & Candace Weir Foundation · Review Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bernard F Conners Foundation · Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Trombly Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Trombly Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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