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Trainer Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Trainer Family Foundation Inc

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.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$278kEducation$256kHuman Services$178kArts & Culture$148kYouth Development$100kPhilanthropy$46kInternational$25k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$62,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RYTHER$62,500
CHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN PRODUCTIONS$62,500
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 (FY19–25, $279k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RYTHER: $31k → 9%RYTHER: $20k → 9%RYTHER: $15k → 9%RYTHER: $85k → 9%KIDS MATTER INC: $51k → 17%RYTHER: $63k → 9%RYTHER: $15k → 9%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$759k · 5 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$759k
$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+40%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • R
    RYTHER
    5× · 2019–2025 · $228k · revenue +9%
  • CO
    CHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN PRODUCT
    4× · 2022–2025 · $148k · revenue +260%
  • CP
    CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • BB
    Bridge Builders Houston Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · 56% of their budget
  • KIDS MATTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +46%
  • PC
    PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · 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
The Children's Center Utah

The mission of the children's center utah is to provide comprehensive mental health care to enhance the emotional well-being of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families. we are the only organization in utah and the largest in…

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2
Kidspeace National Centers for Kids in Crisis

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

Health
3
Kidspeace National Centers of New England

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

Human Services
4
The Children's Place Inc

Provide mental health services to promote resiliency, wellness and positive developmental outcomes through prevention, treatment, education and family support for children under the age of 9 who have experienced abuse, neglect and other…

Crime & Legal
5
Children Now

Children Now harnesses our collective power to advance equitable solutions for California's kids. Children Now breaks down systemic barriers so that all children have the services and supports they need to reach their full potential. By…

Human Services
6
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
7
Kidspeace National Centers of North America

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule "o".with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

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8
Childserve Therapy Inc

We partner with families to help children with special health care needs live a great life.

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9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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11
Kids Crossing

Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.

Human Services
12
Children First

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Penfield Children's Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bridge Builders Houston 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $131,100 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSECASA DE ESPERANZA: $127,426 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZACHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $125,000 · OtherCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLRYTHER: $228,144 · Human ServicesRYTHERKIDS MATTER INC: $50,831 · Human ServicesKIDS MATTER INCCHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN PRODUCT: $147,500 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN OF THE SETTI…UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $26,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHER…CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA C…Bridge Builders Houston Inc: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBridge Bui…PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthSave The Children Federation Inc: $25,000 · International
Other$383,526Human Services$278,975Philanthropy$193,500Youth Development$100,000Health$50,000International$25,000

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 budgetRYTHER: $228,144 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN PRODUCT: $147,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $125,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBridge Builders Houston Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetKIDS MATTER INC: $50,831 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $26,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Baird Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baird Foundation IncWI13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Trainer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trainer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Trainer Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Trainer Family Foundation Inc 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 11 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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