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Travis L Rabren Foundation Inc

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.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$327kEducation$133kFood & Nutrition$82kHousing & Shelter$77kReligion$25kYouth Development$20kRecreation & Sports$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $111k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$41k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AU EAGLES PROGRAM$15,000
EAST ALABAMA FOOD BANK$15,000
BABY STEPS$15,000
OUR HOUSE$15,000
WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC$15,000
20TH SPECIAL FORCES SOCIETY$12,000
MERCY MEDICAL$12,000
MARRIAGE IN FOCUS$12,000
POWER OF WILL$6,000
HIGHLANDS COLLEGE$6,000
THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION OF EA$6,000
STORYBOOK FARM$6,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG LIFE: $8k → 13%HIGHLANDS COLLEGE: $5k → 7%EAMC FOUNDATION CANCER CENTER: $50k → 15%20TH SPECIAL FORCES SOCIETY: $12k → 16%EAMC FOUNDATION CANCER CENTER NAMING: $50k → 15%HIGHLANDS COLLEGE: $6k → 16%STORYBOOK FARM: $12k → 15%CHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS: $6k → 16%STORYBOOK FARM: $8k → 15%RAPE COUNSELORS OF EAST ALABAMA: $8k → 15%STORYBOOK FARM: $6k → 15%EAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 15%RAPE COUNSELORS OF EAST ALABAMA: $5k → 15%STORYBOOK FARM: $5k → 15%HOSANNA HOME: $5k → 15%STORYBOOK FARM: $5k → 15%EAST ALABAMA FOOD BANK: $24k → 15%BY OUR LOVE - OUR HOUSE: $24k → 15%EAST ALABAMA FOOD BANK: $18k → 15%BY OUR LOVE - OUR HOUSE: $16k → 15%EAST ALABAMA FOOD BANK: $15k → 15%BY OUR LOVE - OUR HOUSE: $14k → 15%EAST ALABAMA FOOD BANK: $13k → 15%BY OUR LOVE - OUR HOUSE: $10k → 15%EAST ALABAMA FOOD BANK: $5k → 15%EAST ALABAMA FOOD BANK: $5k → 15%WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC: $24k → 15%WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC: $15k → 15%MERCY MEDICAL: $12k → 15%THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION OF EA: $12k → 15%MARRIAGE IN FOCUS: $12k → 15%BY OUR LOVE - OUR HOUSE: $10k → 15%WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC: $10k → 15%WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC: $8k → 15%POWER OF WILL: $8k → 15%POWER OF WILL: $6k → 15%POWER OF WILL: $6k → 15%THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION OF EA: $6k → 15%POWER OF WILL: $6k → 15%WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC: $5k → 15%WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC: $5k → 15%MERCY MEDICAL: $5k → 15%MERCY MEDICAL: $5k → 15%MERCY MEDICAL CLINIC: $5k → 15%AU EAGLES PROGRAM: $15k → 15%AU EAGLES PROGRAM: $12k → 15%AU EAGLES PROGRAM: $10k → 15%AU EAGLES PROGRAM: $10k → 15%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$498k · 15 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +107% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$498k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+107%
+61%

Still filing today

47%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +46%
  • WH
    WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +107%
  • BS
    Baby Steps
    4× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +222%

Funded once

  • EF
    EAMC FOUNDATION CANCER CENTER NAMING
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • EF
    EAMC FOUNDATION CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • EA
    EAST ALABAMA FCA WOMEN'S MINISTRY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

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
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
2
Women's Care Center Inc

Offer life-affirming choices for pregnancy and sexual health.

Health
3
A Choice for Life Inc

Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…

4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

6
Align Life Ministries

To share the gospel of jesus christ and the sacredness of human life through pregnancy services, strategic partnerships, and equipping resources

7
Liberty Womens Clinic

Liberty Women's Clinic ministers with the love of Christ by empowering people to make informed, life-affirming decisions about pregnancy, sexual health, and relationships.

Health
8
New Life Solutions Inc

To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.

Health
9
The Birth Center

The birth center dba lifecycle wellness and birth center is an independent non-profit organization and free-standing, out-of-hospital birth center. our team of midwives and nurse-practitioners provide empowering gynecology and…

10
Hope Womens Center

Affirming the life of the preborn child, we provide medical and educational services to women in unplanned pregnancies, and those who significantly influence them, by encouraging Christ-centered, life affirming and healthy lifestyle…

Human Services
11
Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

Health
12
Mend Medical Services Inc

Mend medical services offers professional medical services in a confidential environment. mend has operated since 1987 in tulsa, offering free limited obstetrical ultrasounds, pregnancy tests, sti testing, and the abortion pill reversal…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Hudson Family Foundation 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

14 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. 14 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC — $81,500 · OtherFOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INCBY OUR LOVE - OUR HOUSE — $76,000 · OtherBY OUR LOVE - OUR HOUSEEAMC FOUNDATION CANCER CENTER NAMING — $50,000 · OtherEAMC FOUNDATION CANCER CENTER NAMINGEAMC FOUNDATION CANCER CENTER — $50,000 · OtherEAMC FOUNDATION CANCER CENTERAU EAGLES PROGRAM — $47,000 · OtherAU EAGLES PROGRAMMERCY MEDICAL CORPORATION — $22,000 · OtherTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION OF EA — $18,000 · Other+20 more — $109,275 · Other+20 moreWOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC — $71,500 · Civil RightsWOMEN'S HOP…Baby Steps — $61,500 · Housing & ShelterBaby Step…STORYBOOK FARM INC — $39,000 · Recreation & SportsPOWER OF WILL INC — $30,500 · PhilanthropyRAPE COUNSELORS OF EAST ALABAMA INC — $12,500 · HealthWOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthYOUNG LIFE — $18,000 · Youth Development
Other$453,775Civil Rights$71,500Housing & Shelter$61,500Recreation & Sports$39,000Philanthropy$30,500Health$23,500Youth Development$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC — $81,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC — $71,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetBaby Steps — $61,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSTORYBOOK FARM INC — $39,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPOWER OF WILL INC — $30,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CORPORATION — $22,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAPE COUNSELORS OF EAST ALABAMA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMARRIAGE IN FOCUS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetD1 LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC
  • Who funds Baby Steps
  • Who funds STORYBOOK FARM INC
  • Who funds POWER OF WILL INC
  • Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CORPORATION
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds RAPE COUNSELORS OF EAST ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds MARRIAGE IN FOCUS INC
  • Who funds WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES INC
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds D1 LIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Scott Foundation IncAL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scott Foundation Inc · The Malzahn Family Foundation Inc · Davison Bruce Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Travis L Rabren Foundation Inc 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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 Travis L Rabren Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Travis L Rabren 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 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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