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Travers Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$5.2MHuman Services$1.3MAnimals$631kPublic Benefit$403kHousing & Shelter$55kHealth$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $464k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$82,334
Median grant
1
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$1,102,500
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$200,000
EAST BAY SPCA$105,000
COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA$82,334
THE SEMPER FI FUND$76,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SILICON VALLEY$10,000
MARIN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$10,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.7M · 9 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$7.7M
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+72%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $986k · revenue +18%
  • EB
    EAST BAY SPCA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $518k · revenue +18%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $327k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • GB
    GRAND BEGINNINGSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +72%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
2
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
3
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
4
Canine Companions for Independence Inc

Canine companions for independence is a nonprofit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing expertly trained service dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships, at no cost to clients.

Human Services
5
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
6
International Guiding Eyes Inc Dba Guide Dogs of America

The organizations mission is to transform lives through partnerships with service dogs.the organization provides professionally trained, expertly matched service dogs and personalized instruction in their care and use to people who are…

Human Services
7
Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California

To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.

8
Leader Dogs for the Blind

Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with lifelong skills for safe and independent daily travel.

Human Services
9
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
10
Marin Community Clinic

To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.

Health
11
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
12
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the most unlike its peers is Humane Society Silicon Valley. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $5,217,001 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA — $403,187 · OtherTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA+1 more — $15,000 · OtherGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $986,072 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR…+1 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesEAST BAY SPCA — $518,216 · AnimalsEAST BAY …HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $112,974 · AnimalsHUMANE SO…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $326,500 · HealthMARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterGRAND BEGINNINGS — $3,000 · Education
Other$5,635,188Human Services$1,011,072Animals$631,190Health$326,500Housing & Shelter$55,000Education$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $986,072 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEAST BAY SPCA — $518,216 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA — $403,187 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $326,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $112,974 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING — $55,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND BEGINNINGS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds EAST BAY SPCA
  • Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY
  • Who funds MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
  • Who funds GRAND BEGINNINGS

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Travers Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Travers Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Travers Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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