How much does Trailsend Foundation give?

Trailsend Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $6,647,635 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Trailsend Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Health (24%), Environment (9%).

Who are Trailsend Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Emory University ($7.6M), The Hawaii School for Girls ($6.0M), University of Denver ($3.0M).

Does Trailsend Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Trailsend Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Trailsend Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J C Kennedy Foundation Inc, McInerny Foundation--, First Hawaiian Bank Foundation.

Where is Trailsend Foundation based?

Trailsend Foundation is based in GA.

Foundation Dossiers

Georgia · Private foundation

Trailsend Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 47
Grants FY2024: 37
Organizations funded FY2023: 27%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,100,000
Organizations funded a year: 35 to 39; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 13
Total assets, FY2024: $117M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Trailsend Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentReligionHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	44	$6.6M	30%
FY2023	37	$8.1M	27%
FY2022	35	$8.2M	29%
FY2021	35	$5.6M	17%
FY2020	37	$6.3M	24%
FY2019	39	$6.2M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$24MHealth$10.0MEnvironment$3.7MInternational$1.5MHuman Services$778kAnimals$640kPhilanthropy$525kYouth Development$400kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Emory University	$7,575,000	5	n/a
The Hawaii School for Girls	$6,000,000	6	22%
University of Denver	$3,000,000	3	0%
Planned Parenthood Southeast Inc	$2,597,000	6	6%
Ducks Unlimited Inc	$2,000,000	1	1%
Emory University	$1,700,000	1	0%
American Friends of the School of St Jude Tanzania Inc	$1,500,000	3	59%
Prostate Cancer Foundation	$1,000,000	2	1%
The University of Montana Foundation	$1,000,000	1	2%
University of Michigan	$1,000,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of Trailsend Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Emory University	$7,575,000	5	n/a
The Hawaii School for Girls	$6,000,000	6	22%
University of Denver	$3,000,000	3	0%
Planned Parenthood Southeast Inc	$2,597,000	6	6%
Ducks Unlimited Inc	$2,000,000	1	1%
Emory University	$1,700,000	1	0%
American Friends of the School of St Jude Tanzania Inc	$1,500,000	3	59%
Prostate Cancer Foundation	$1,000,000	2	1%
The University of Montana Foundation	$1,000,000	1	2%
University of Michigan	$1,000,000	2	n/a
Johns Hopkins University	$1,000,000	2	0%
The University of Georgia Foundation	$988,500	1	0%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc	$525,000	6	0%
Kapi'olani Health Foundation	$510,000	6	1%
Land Trust Alliance Inc	$300,000	6	0%
The Wilderness Society	$300,000	6	0%
Steadman Philippon Research Institute	$300,000	5	1%
The Livestrong Foundation	$300,000	6	4%
Delta Waterfowl Foundation	$300,000	3	1%
Hawaii Preparatory Academy	$300,000	1	64%
Georgia Conservancy Inc	$300,000	6	5%
North Fulton Community Charities Inc	$275,000	6	1%
Hawaii Catholic Community Foundation	$250,000	1	n/a
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$250,000	1	1%
Rural Montana Foundation	$250,000	1	100%
Lawakua Charitable Fund	$250,000	1	46%
Agape Community Center	$150,000	6	1%
Covenant House Georgia Inc	$150,000	6	0%
Polynesian Voyaging Society	$150,000	1	4%
Earthjustice	$100,000	5	0%
Cure Childhood Cancer Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Montana State University Foundation Inc	$100,000	4	0%
Atlanta Police Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	3%
Property and Environment Research Center	$100,000	1	1%
The Good Samaritan Health Center Inc	$100,000	4	1%
Health Education Assessment and Leadership Inc	$100,000	5	1%
Georgia Department of Human Resources DFCS	$100,000	4	n/a
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$100,000	5	0%
City of Refuge	$100,000	4	0%
Mississippi State University	$100,000	1	n/a
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc	$90,000	6	0%
Twin Bridges Senior & Community Center Inc	$50,000	5	12%
Colorado Open Lands	$50,000	1	0%
Twin Bridges Rural Fire Department	$46,135	1	n/a
Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc	$45,000	3	1%
The Access Fund	$45,000	5	0%
Firewood Bank of the Ruby Valley	$40,000	2	46%
Ruby Valley Food Pantry	$30,000	6	n/a
Chris 180 Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Reach Prep Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Vanderbilt University	$25,000	1	0%
Mercy Care Foundation Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Feed My Lambs Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Sheridan Firefighters Association	$25,000	1	8%
Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc	$25,000	1	0%
Hillels of Georgia Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Unitedhealthcare Children's Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Treasure State Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Capitol Learning Academy Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Appalachian Mountain Rescue Team	$7,500	2	n/a
North Carolina Outward Bound School	$5,000	1	0%
Path Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Catalyst Sports Inc	$2,500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.

Trailsend Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 54.

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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.

J C Kennedy Foundation IncGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J C Kennedy Foundation Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · James M Cox Foundation of Georgia Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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About Trailsend Foundation

How much does Trailsend Foundation give?: Trailsend Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $6,647,635 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Trailsend Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Health (24%), Environment (9%).
Who are Trailsend Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Emory University ($7.6M), The Hawaii School for Girls ($6.0M), University of Denver ($3.0M).
Does Trailsend Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Trailsend Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Trailsend Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J C Kennedy Foundation Inc, McInerny Foundation--, First Hawaiian Bank Foundation.
Where is Trailsend Foundation based?: Trailsend Foundation is based in GA.