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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.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$137kEnvironment$133kRecreation & Sports$126kArts & Culture$59kAnimals$44kYouth Development$34kFood & Nutrition$34kPhilanthropy$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $29k
$1,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$477k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE ASSOCIATION$29,000
TEENS INCNEW EXPLORERS LEARNING CENTER$6,000
GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION$5,500
START MAKING A READER TODAY$3,500
FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY$3,500
DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK CANCER CENTERPROUTY$2,650
LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY$2,500
ANGUILLA TENNIS ACADEMY$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
EVERY TOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$1,500
DOG IS MY CO-PILOT$1,500
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,500
SUSTAINABLE PRINCETON$1,500
LAKES REGION CONSERVATION TRUST$1,000
STONE MOUNTAIN ARTS CENTER$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTH HILL: $5k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDFLOWER SOCIETY: $5k → 8%LONE TREE INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $5k → 16%HOMELESS PRENATAL: $5k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $7k → 14%SMART READING: $8k → 10%TIMBERLINE VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT FDN: $5k → 6%THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $6k → 9%TEENS INC: $8k → 12%GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION: $12k → 9%ALOHA FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY: $5k → 11%LAKES REGION CONSERVATION TRUST: $5k → 9%GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $8k → 9%U S DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $11k → 15%WELLESLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $5k → 7%GARDEN IN THE WOODS: $5k → 8%LONE TREE INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $5k → 14%TEENS INCNEW EXPLORERS LEARNING CENTER: $6k → 12%GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%ALOHA FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%FRIENDS OF WARDSBORO LIBRARY: $5k → 11%GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $5k → 9%U S DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%WELLESLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $5k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDFLOWER SOCIETY: $5k → 8%LONE TREE INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY: $5k → 16%LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: $5k → 14%GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION: $8k → 9%ALOHA FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%FRIENDS OF WARDSBORO LIBRARY: $5k → 11%WELLESLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $5k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDFLOWER SOCIETY: $5k → 8%ANDOVER ACADEMY: $10k → 10%PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER: $10k → 10%LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 9%ANDOVER ACADEMY: $10k → 10%LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 9%PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER: $10k → 10%START MAKING A READER TODAY: $7k → 12%NH HUMANE SOCIETY: $6k → 9%LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE ASSOCIATION: $29k → 9%LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE ASSOCIATION: $21k → 9%LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
KS
SC
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$667k · 43 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
24

Total granted

$667k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+20%

Still filing today

58%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LW
    Lake Winnipesaukee Association
    7× · 2019–2025 · $79k · revenue +332%
  • TA
    THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +13%
  • LR
    LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TI
    TEENS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +26%
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
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
2
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Tr

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…

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3
The Trustees of Reservations

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.

Environment
4
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
5
Appalachian Mountain Club

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…

Environment
6
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust

We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.

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7
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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8
The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment
9
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
10
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

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.

Environment
11
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

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…

Environment
12
Wentworth Watershed Association

To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Plant Trust Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
23/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lake Winnipesaukee Association: $79,000 · OtherLake Winnipesaukee AssociationU S DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $21,000 · OtherANDOVER ACADEMY: $20,300 · OtherPHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER: $20,000 · OtherNH HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherWELLESLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherLONE TREE INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · OtherSTART MAKING A READER TODAY: $18,500 · OtherUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $20,000 · OtherYMCA OF THE ROCKIES: $20,000 · Other+42 more: $218,050 · Other+42 moreTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE ALOHA FO…GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC: $32,500 · Recreation & SportsGREEN MOUNTA…BETSYS PARK: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBETSYS PARK+1 more: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY: $13,500 · EnvironmentLakes Region Conservation Trust: $12,000 · EnvironmentHITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE: $5,000 · EnvironmentLoon Preservation Committee: $2,500 · EnvironmentOregon Environmental Council: $2,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,750 · EnvironmentTHE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationSMART READING: $10,500 · EducationHartwick College: $8,000 · EducationFriends of the Wardsboro Library: $5,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $5,000 · EducationMaine Huts & Trails: $3,000 · EducationThe Renew Democracy Initiative Inc: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationLAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC: $33,000 · Food & NutritionGREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEENS INC: $8,000 · Youth Development
Other$496,850Recreation & Sports$84,000Environment$51,750Education$50,500Food & Nutrition$33,000Arts & Culture$32,500Youth Development$28,000

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 budgetLake Winnipesaukee Association: $79,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC: $33,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROCKIES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetGREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY: $13,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLakes Region Conservation Trust: $12,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMART READING: $10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBETSYS PARK: $10,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT: $9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIKE-WALK ALLIANCE OF NH: $8,750 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTEENS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Wardsboro Library: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Huts & Trails: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Renew Democracy Initiative Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoon Preservation Committee: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATH HOME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Environmental Council: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE PRINCETON INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROUSEL OF HAPPINESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 YMCA OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Doug Coombs Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST 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 TEENS INC ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hartwick College ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH25.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Traylor Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Traylor Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Traylor Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Traylor Charitable Fund 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 79 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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