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The Troon Foundation at a glance

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The Troon 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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$5.3MFood & Nutrition$1.4MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$994kYouth Development$835kInternational$634kHousing & Shelter$439kRecreation & Sports$381kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $672k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT OF JAMES M AND KATHLEEN H PIERMARINI$700,000
UNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY$190,000
WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$125,000
Individual grant recipient$113,312
CHRISTMAS CHEER$100,000
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK$100,000
PROSAMI$93,700
CITY GATE DREAM CENTER$90,000
BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS$90,000
ON OUR OWN$74,208
YMCA$55,000
THE DOORWAYS$50,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$50,000
ST JOSEPH'S VILLA$50,000
SALVATION ARMY OF ALAMANCE$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $570k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE: $10k → 17%FIFTH STREET MINISTRIES: $30k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $30k → 7%SHALOM FARMS: $30k → 7%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $50k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $30k → 7%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $40k → 9%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $50k → 16%SHALOM FARMS: $20k → 7%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $45k → 16%SHALOM FARMS: $20k → 7%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $30k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $25k → 16%FIFTH STREET MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $25k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $25k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $25k → 13%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $20k → 13%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $15k → 13%RALPH SCOTT LIFESERVICES: $10k → 13%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $10k → 13%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 40 repeat orgs$585k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
18

Total granted

$12M
$355k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+22%

Still filing today

70%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $450k · revenue +16%
  • AD
    ALAMANCE DREAM CENTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $324k · revenue +3%
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $275k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • MH
    MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $86k · revenue 0%
  • LG
    LYNCHBURG GROWS
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
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
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
2
Durham Home Inc
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3
Homes of Hope Inc

Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.

Housing & Shelter
4
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…

—
5
Fresh Start Alamance Inc

Charitable nonprofit providing assistance to individuals in need in Alamance County

Housing & Shelter
6
Urban Ministries of Durham Inc

Established in 1983, Urban Ministries of Durham provides case management to end people's homelessness, offer emergency shelter, free meals, groceries, clothing, referral to needed resources, workforce and life skills training, and…

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7
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
8
Restoring Hope Center Inc

Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…

Human Services
9
Loudoun Serenity House

Loudoun Serenity House's mission is to provide free, peer-based mentoring, education, and advocacy for individuals and families affected by substance abuse disorder, along with structured transitional housing for men and women rebuilding…

Housing & Shelter
10
New Covenant Safe Haven

New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…

Human Services
11
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. Habitat for Humanity of North Carolina…

Housing & Shelter
12
Community Alternatives Inc

To provide responsive, person-centered services to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 68 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
26/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT OF JAMES M AND KATHLEEN H PIERMARINI: $4,435,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT OF JAMES M AND KATHLEEN H PIERMARINIUNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY: $860,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTYCHRISTMAS CHEER: $450,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $450,000 · OtherBON SECOURS: $370,755 · OtherBIG BROTHERS & SISTERS: $370,000 · Other+29 more: $2,083,992 · Other+29 morePROSAMI: $420,200 · HealthPROSAMITHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $275,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S…LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER: $145,000 · HealthLEGAL INFOR…ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC: $125,316 · HealthON OUR OWN …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $110,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCE…MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION: $86,000 · HealthMOSES H CON…COMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC: $50,000 · Health+3 more: $40,000 · HealthSHALOM FARMSINC: $130,000 · Human ServicesGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $105,000 · Human ServicesBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $95,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $90,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $70,000 · Human ServicesDIAKONOS INC: $50,000 · Human Services+4 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Yellow Door Foundation Inc: $115,000 · Housing & ShelterEden Village of Wilmington: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterBENEVOLENCE FARM: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HAVEN INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterREAL LIFE: $13,800 · Housing & ShelterALAMANCE DREAM CENTER INC: $324,100 · Community ImprovementALAMANCE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementInternational Neighbors Inc: $214,000 · PhilanthropyALLIED CHURCHES OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC: $90,000 · PhilanthropyGATHERING HUMANITY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCarol Adams Foundation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $199,300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$9,019,747Health$1,251,516Human Services$580,000Housing & Shelter$368,800Community Improvement$344,100Philanthropy$339,000Food & Nutrition$199,300

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY: $860,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $450,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPROSAMI: $420,200 over 5y, 72% of budgetALAMANCE DREAM CENTER INC: $324,100 over 5y, 19% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $275,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetAlamance Community College Foundation: $260,280 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetInternational Neighbors Inc: $214,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $199,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC: $160,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER: $145,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS OF ALAMANCE: $140,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC: $130,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPOWER CROSS: $130,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC: $125,316 over 3y, 12% of budgetThe Yellow Door Foundation Inc: $115,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $105,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $95,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetALLIED CHURCHES OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC: $90,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION: $86,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDIAKONOS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLYNCHBURG GROWS: $40,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetEden Village of Wilmington: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetStudio 1: $40,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetNEXT MOVE PROGRAM: $40,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetALAMANCE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetKiwanis Club of Greensboro Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetBENEVOLENCE FARM: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGATHERING HUMANITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTECH FOR TROOP: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAL LIFE: $13,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRALPH SCOTT LIFESERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOOTS TO SUITS: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetConexus: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetElizabeth Smart Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY STOREHOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetHINDS' FEET FARM INC: $5,000 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 UNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSAMI ↗
  • Who funds ALAMANCE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Alamance Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds International Neighbors Inc ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS OF ALAMANCE ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
  • Who funds POWER CROSS ↗
  • Who funds ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Yellow Door Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED CHURCHES OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
  • Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC ↗
  • Who funds DIAKONOS INC ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG GROWS ↗
  • Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
  • Who funds Studio 1 ↗
  • Who funds NEXT MOVE PROGRAM ↗

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.

Truist Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Community Foundation …The Labcorp Charitabl…Annabella R Jenkins F…Dominion Energy Chari…George J & Effie L Se…The Cannon Foundation…Carmax FoundationFoundation for the Ca…The Charles Fund IncRichmond Memorial Hea…
Truist Foundation IncFL29.2× affinity14 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 Greensboro Inc · The Labcorp Charitable Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · George J & Effie L Seay · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Charles Fund Inc · Richmond Memorial Health 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 Troon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Troon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 68 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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