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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 FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $431k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+10 grants · $5.0M
$50,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$117M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMORY UNIVERSITY$1,100,000
HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$685,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDE TANZANIA INC$500,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC$400,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$315,000
HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY$300,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$250,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION$250,000
THE SHORE FOUNDATION$250,000
POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY$150,000
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION$100,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER INC$100,000
PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $15k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $15k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $15k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $15k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $15k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $15k → 10%CHRIS 180: $25k → 14%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $50k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $50k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $50k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $50k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $50k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
ND
MN
MI
NY
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 45 repeat orgs$8.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
29

Total granted

$32M
$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+29%

Still filing today

67%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TH
    THE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +17%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +22%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +12%
  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2023 · $1.7M · revenue +16%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $989k · revenue +62%
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Twin Bridges Senior & Community Center Inc. 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

59 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. 59 of the 89 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
44/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMORY UNIVERSITY: $7,575,000 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITYTHE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $6,000,000 · OtherTHE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLSHUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,500,000 · OtherHUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTEWESTMEAD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDE: $1,000,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $1,000,000 · Other+45 more: $3,696,235 · Other+45 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $3,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVEREmory University: $1,700,000 · EducationEmory UniversityTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTA…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSIT…THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $988,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORG…GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $525,000 · EducationGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY S…HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $300,000 · Education+4 more: $200,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $2,597,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…MAYO CLINIC: $1,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICKapi'olani Health Foundation: $510,000 · HealthKapi'olani H…STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $300,000 · HealthSTEADMAN PHI…+4 more: $325,000 · Health+4 moreDucks Unlimited Inc: $2,000,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unl…LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUS…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $300,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDE…GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA C…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $250,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AN…+5 more: $300,000 · Environment+5 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyThe Livestrong Foundation: $300,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDE TANZANIA INC: $1,500,000 · InternationalNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $90,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesUNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$21,771,235Education$8,713,500Health$4,732,000Environment$3,450,000Philanthropy$1,575,000International$1,500,000Human Services$405,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $6,000,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $2,597,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEmory University: $1,700,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDE TANZANIA INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $988,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $525,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $510,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Livestrong Foundation: $300,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $300,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $300,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC: $300,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $275,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRURAL MONTANA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetLAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetAgape Community Center: $150,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY: $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHealth Education Assessment and Leadership Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTwin Bridges Senior & Community Center Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFirewood Bank of the Ruby Valley: $40,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACH PREP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVanderbilt University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEED MY LAMBS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSHERIDAN FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% 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.

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 Foundatio…McInerny Foundation--First Hawaiian Bank F…James M Cox Foundatio…The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…Shell USA Company Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Trailsend Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trailsend Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Trailsend Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Trailsend Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 89 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home