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Travis Roy Foundation

The primary focus of the trust is the rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries and research and educational programs relating to such injuries.

$379k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$7.0MEducation$1.2MYouth Development$50k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $295,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $379,333 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $84,333 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $255k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACK TROTTIER FOUNDATION INC$75,000
SCI BOSTON$70,000
FRANCISCAN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$60,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL$25,000
IN MY RUNNING SHOES$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JACK TROTTIER FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 8%SCI BOSTON: $70k → 8%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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 4 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$1.7M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +6%
  • MB
    MARK BAVIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $303k · revenue +2% · 81% of their budget
  • CR
    CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $260k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue -77%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2022 · $2.1M
  • SI
    SlamT1D Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +34%
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
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
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified
5
Peter Cohen Foundation
Health
6
The Spine Institute Foundation
Health
7
Spinal Research Foundation D/B/a National Spine Health Foundation
Health
8
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
9
Barrow Neurological Foundation

To support barrow neurological institute, a department of st. joseph's hospital and medical center, which is in turn a division of dignity health. dignity health operates as a major subsidiary within commonspirit, which is one of the…

Health
10
The Shriners' Hospital for Children

Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)

Health
11
Bmc Affiliated Physicians Inc

Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…

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12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jack Trottier 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $2,125,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,065,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY+1 more: $25,000 · OtherSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,020,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Ha…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $683,803 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…MARK BAVIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $302,857 · EducationMARK BAVIS LEADERSHIP FOUND…CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $260,000 · HealthFranciscan Hospital for Children: $60,000 · HealthSlamT1D Inc: $50,000 · HealthIN MY RUNNING SHOES- A CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $15,000 · HealthJACK TROTTIER FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesSCIBOSTON INC: $70,000 · Human Services
Other$3,215,000Philanthropy$2,550,000Education$2,006,660Health$385,000Human Services$145,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,065,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,020,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $683,803 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARK BAVIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $302,857 over 4y, 81% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJACK TROTTIER FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSCIBOSTON INC: $70,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSlamT1D Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIN MY RUNNING SHOES- A CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 23% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Travis Roy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Travis Roy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
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 Travis Roy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Travis Roy 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 14 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 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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