How much did THE TROON FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of THE TROON 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

2021

capitalrentcovidhomelessnessveterans

2022

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2023

—

2024

vehiclenicumental health

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

03FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k23 grants · $663k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
$250k+1 grant · $400k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$57M

Total assets

Largest grants

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT OF JAMES M AND KATHLEEN H PIERMARINI$400,000
BON SECOURS$228,835
UNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY$190,000
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK$150,000
BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS$150,000
WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$125,000
SAFE ALAMANCE$100,000
CHRISTMAS CHEER$100,000
ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
CITY GATE DREAM CENTER$90,300
PROSAMI$89,500
CONE HEALTH PHILANTHROPY$86,000
INTERNATIONAL NEIGHBORS$74,000
SWIM RICHMOND$50,000
BENJAMIN HAIR SWIM$42,300

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 (FY21–24, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 71% 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 edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.9M · 32 repeat orgs$590k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.9M

$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+82%

Still filing today

53%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

BR
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK
3× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +57%
AC
ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2024 · $260k · revenue +3%
IN
INTERNATIONAL NEIGHBORS
3× · 2021–2024 · $214k · revenue +172%

Funded once

Y
YMCA
one grant, 2022 · $80k
SA
SAFE ALAMANACE
one grant, 2021 · $35k
CC
COMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +146%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services

Arlington Community Food Bank

The Arlington Community Food Bank's mission is to help end hunger in our community at its root cause.

Human Services

Habitat for Humanity of Alamance Co

Habitat for Humanity of Alamance County envisions a world where everyone in our community has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity of Alamance County is a non profit organization seeking to put Gods love into action by building…

Housing & Shelter

NourishNC Inc

Provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition

Alliance of Disability Advocates

To serve all north carolinians with significant disabilities by ensuring they can live independently in a barrier-free community of their choice through consumer-controlled, self-directed services.

Religion

Habitat for Humanity of Nc Inc

Seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter

UrbanPromise Charlotte

Our mission at UrbanPromise is to provide Charlotte's children and youth with the spiritual, academic, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development

Habitat for Humanity of High Point

Seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

Housing & Shelter

Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry

To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…

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Charlotte Family Housing

The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.

Human Services

The Community Table Inc

To provide nutritious meals to the hungry and food insecure in Jackson County, NC in a welcoming environment. We do this through our soup kitchen, food pantry, and community garden programs.

Food & Nutrition

Housing for New Hope

Ending homelessness in durham, north carolina

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allied Churches of Alamance County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prosami. 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 18 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/34

the rest of the field

14%

2,685/18,678

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

34 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)

34/34

Grantees still filing

27/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,754,643Health$516,500Human Services$375,000Philanthropy$319,000Housing & Shelter$258,800Arts & Culture$115,000Religion$105,000

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.

Truist Foundation IncFL23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Truist Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Alamance Community & Health Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of Alamance County Inc · George J & Effie L Seay · Duke Energy 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 TROON 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

05Through 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: PROSAMI.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 800348193 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 PROSAMI, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 58% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Troon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Troon 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 TROON 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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Troon Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE TROON 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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Troon Foundation?

More from the funding graph