· Private foundation
Tramiel Charitable Trust
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.
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 $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $30,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| ISRAAID (US) | $20,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $20,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CHABAD OF PALO ALTO | $15,000 |
| FJC | $15,000 |
| BLUE STAR FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| JEWISH SILICON VALLEY | $10,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR BEN GURION UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $9,000 |
| EXPLORATORIUM | $9,000 |
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, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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
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 72% of Tramiel Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 24%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum9× · 2017–2025 · $268k · revenue +25%
- OFOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +16%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- IISRAALDone grant, 2022 · $60k
- AAAMERICAN ASSOC BEN GURION UNIVERSITone grant, 2017 · $27k
- TPThe Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundationone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +23%
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 33 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 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tramiel Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tramiel Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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