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Traylor Charitable Fund
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE ASSOCIATION | $29,000 |
| TEENS INCNEW EXPLORERS LEARNING CENTER | $6,000 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION | $5,500 |
| FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY | $3,500 |
| START MAKING A READER TODAY | $3,500 |
| DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK CANCER CENTERPROUTY | $2,650 |
| LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ANGUILLA TENNIS ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| EVERY TOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $1,500 |
| DOG IS MY CO-PILOT | $1,500 |
| SUSTAINABLE PRINCETON | $1,500 |
| PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| CAROUSEL OF HAPPINESS | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 11 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LWLake Winnipesaukee Association7× · 2019–2025 · $79k · revenue +332%
- TATHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +13%
- LRLAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TITEENS INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Conserving land, water and wildlife habitat for the communities of northwest hancock county. protecting our legacy of: abundant wildlife habitat and biodiversity clean water rural character and scenic beauty working forests and farms…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Since 1876, the Appalachian Mountain Club has promoted the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the mountains, forests, waters, and trails of the Appalachian region. We are the nation's oldest outdoor recreation and conservation…
We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Plant Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dog Is My Copilot. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 79 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Lake Winnipesaukee Association ↗
- Who funds THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Doug Coombs Foundation ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Lakes Region Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds BETSYS PARK ↗
- Who funds DOG IS MY COPILOT ↗
- Who funds BIKE-WALK ALLIANCE OF NH ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds Hartwick College ↗
- Who funds PEOPLEFORBIKES 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.
Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Scotto Laporte Charitable Foundation · The Booth Foundation · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Tosa Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Traylor Charitable Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
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.
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