· Private foundation
The Trzcinski Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $860k
- $250k+1 grant · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE | $650,000 |
| SECRETARIAT OF THE SHRINE OF SAINTE-ANNE-DEBEAUPRE | $200,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| ROAD TO HOPE | $100,000 |
| MARY QUEEN OF PEACE | $100,000 |
| MARIANS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CHURCH | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST CECILIA | $30,000 |
| DOMINICAN HOUSE OF STUDIESDOMINICAN FRIARS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HOME | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of The Trzcinski Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE3× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +58%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM4× · 2017–2022 · $920k · revenue +134%- TRTHE ROAD TO HOPE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $116k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- DSDominican Sisters of St Cecilia Conone grant, 2022 · $366k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $227k · revenue +29%- FSFRANCISCAN SISTERS OF CHICAGOone grant, 2017 · $204k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANCTUARY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · Community West Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Trzcinski Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trzcinski Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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