· Private foundation
Trebek Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MATTHEWS SOUP KITCHEN INC | $75,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS BURN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY FUND | $20,000 |
| ELIMU-USA | $10,000 |
| AID STILL REQUIRED | $10,000 |
| HARLEM GROWN INC | $10,000 |
| S Smith | $6,500 |
| K Chassner | $6,500 |
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.
Your US giving — 83% of grant dollars ($7.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($1.6M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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
Beyond the US — 17% of all-years giving ($1.6M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Trebek Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- FUFordham University4× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +40%
- HTHOPE THE MISSION2× · 2020–2021 · $350k · revenue +460%
- PIPARENTS IN PARTNERSHIP3× · 2017–2021 · $264k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWAone grant, 2018 · $800k · revenue -73%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +125%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +106%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Autism Movement Therapy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 3% 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.
60 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 70 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PARENTS IN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Rona Barrett Foundation ↗
- Who funds Aid Still Required ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds RETHINK FOOD NYC INC ↗
- Who funds THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ART CREATES US INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ELIMU-USA ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPBELL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds THE THALIANS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗
- Who funds Musk Ox Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Trebek 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% 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.