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The Truax Family 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.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$1.5MHealth$350kHuman Services$150kEducation$130kPhilanthropy$35kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$534k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARING NETWORK NFP$50,000
CARING NETWORK NFP$30,000
LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION$25,000
NORTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH INC OF LEXINGTON SC$23,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%NORTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH INC OF LEXINGTON SC: $23k → 11%FAMILY BIBLE CHURCH INC OF PONTE VEDRA FLORIDA: $450k → 6%GRACE BIBLE CHURCH NAPLES INC: $20k → 10%TRI-STATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $50k → 11%LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MOUNTAIN LIFE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $20k → 5%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 13%CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 3%ALTAR FLY FISHING: $35k → 7%THE COMPASS EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $200k → 7%ADAMS COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $20k → 31%NORTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH INC OF LEXINGTON SOUTH CA: $20k → 11%GRACE BIBLE CHURCH NAPLES INC: $10k → 10%TRI-STATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $46k → 11%LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%MOUNTAIN LIFE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $10k → 5%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%ALTAR FLY FISHING: $30k → 7%THE COMPASS EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $20k → 7%ADAMS COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $14k → 31%LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%ALTAR FLY FISHING: $8k → 7%ALTAR FLY FISHING: $8k → 7%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DOWNERS GROVE: $10k → 7%CARING NETWORK NFP: $75k → 7%CARING NETWORK NFP: $75k → 7%CARING NETWORK NFP: $50k → 7%CARING NETWORK NFP: $50k → 7%CARING NETWORK NFP: $35k → 7%CARING NETWORK NFP: $35k → 7%CARING NETWORK NFP: $30k → 7%THE COMPASS EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $270k → 7%THE COMPASS EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $70k → 7%IANS PLACE FOR BEREAVED PARENTS: $50k → 7%IANS PLACE FOR BEREAVED PARENTS: $50k → 7%IANS PLACE FOR BEREAVED PARENTS: $50k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$609k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.5M
$586k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+65%

Still filing today

56%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • CN
    CARING NETWORK NFP
    5× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +173%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR BIBLICAL UNITY
    2× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +31%
  • AF
    ALTAR FLY FISHING
    2× · 2022–2023 · $80k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • FB
    FAMILY BIBLE CHURCH INC OF PONTE VEDRA FLORIDA
    one grant, 2024 · $450k
  • TC
    Tri-State Christian School Association
    one grant, 2023 · $96k · revenue -4%
  • NB
    NORTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH INC OF LEXINGTON SOUTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2024 · $20k

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.

1
National Christian Foundation -- Wisconsin Inc

Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.

Religion
2
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

4
Champion Christian College Inc

To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.

Education
5
Association of Certified Biblical

Training & certification of christian biblical counselors

6
Tyndale Christian School

Tyndale christian school provides a distinctively christian education devoted to cultivating academic excellence and love for all that is gods.

Religion
7
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
8
Covenant Classical School

To train our students to live and think according to a biblical christ-centered world view. we accomplish this by partnering with parents to provide a rigorous, classical education that instills a lifelong love of learning.

Education
9
Covenant Christian School

Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…

Education
10
Alliance for Transformational Ministry

Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.

Religion
11
National Christian Foundation Orlando Inc

To encourage and facilitate greater charitable giving by offering simple, innovative, and efficient giving tools to support charities, churches, and christian ministries.

Philanthropy
12
Christ Central School Inc

The mission is to offer a christ centered and quality education to students in eastern ky. the purpose is to provide high standards for intellectual and spiritual learning. the focus is educational excellence in a christian environment for…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Altar Fly Fishing. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COMPASS EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH — $560,000 · OtherTHE COMPASS EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCHFAMILY BIBLE CHURCH INC OF PONTE VEDRA FLORIDA — $450,000 · OtherFAMILY BIBLE CHURCH INC OF PONTE VEDRA FLORIDAIANS PLACE FOR BEREAVED PARENTS — $150,000 · OtherIANS PLACE FOR BEREAVED PARENTSTri-State Christian School Association — $96,000 · OtherTri-State Christian School Association+5 more — $113,000 · Other+5 moreCARING NETWORK NFP — $350,000 · HealthCARING NETWORK NFPTHE CENTER FOR BIBLICAL UNITY — $200,000 · ReligionTHE CENTER FO…LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION — $52,000 · ReligionLAKE GENEVA F…ALTAR FLY FISHING — $80,000 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropyADAMS COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $34,000 · EducationCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,369,000Health$350,000Religion$252,000Philanthropy$115,000Education$34,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCARING NETWORK NFP — $350,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR BIBLICAL UNITY — $200,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTri-State Christian School Association — $96,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetALTAR FLY FISHING — $80,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADAMS COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $34,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 CARING NETWORK NFP
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR BIBLICAL UNITY
  • Who funds Tri-State Christian School Association
  • Who funds ALTAR FLY FISHING
  • Who funds LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC
  • Who funds ADAMS COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
  • Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES 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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organization The Truax Family 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.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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