How much does Trebek Family Foundation give?

Trebek Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $233,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Trebek Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), International (19%), Environment (17%).

Who are Trebek Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fordham University ($1.1M), Friends of the University of Ottawa ($800k), Red Cloud Indian School ($535k).

Does Trebek Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Trebek Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Trebek Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Annenberg Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, California Community Foundation.

Where is Trebek Family Foundation based?

Trebek Family Foundation is based in DE.

Trebek Family Foundation

Trebek Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Trebek Family Foundation

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.

$233k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

59% of Trebek Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to World Vision Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 22 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Trebek Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $233k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.9MInternational$1.8MEnvironment$1.6MHealth$575kHousing & Shelter$460kFood & Nutrition$454kPhilanthropy$433kReligion$308kOther$0

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k6 grants · $95k
$50k–250k2 grants · $125k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
HARLEM GROWN INC	$10,000
ELIMU-USA	$10,000
AID STILL REQUIRED	$10,000
K Chassner	$6,500
S Smith	$6,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

Beyond the US: 17% of all-years giving ($1.6M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

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Canada$1.6M · 6 grants

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. 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 sends the money.

About 7% of Trebek Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Trebek Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.6M · 38 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.6M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+22%

Still filing today

79%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

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Fordham University
4× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +40%
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HOPE THE MISSION
2× · 2020–2021 · $350k · revenue +460%
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PARENTS IN PARTNERSHIP
3× · 2017–2021 · $264k · revenue +88%

Funded once

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FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
one grant, 2018 · $800k · revenue -73%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +125%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +106%

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.

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

New York University

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.

Education

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

Ucla Foundation

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…

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

Associated Universities Inc

Associated universities inc (aui) collaborates with the scientific community and research sponsors to plan, build, and operate cutting-edge facilities. we cultivate excellence, deliver value, enhance education, and engage the public.

Science & Tech

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; 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.

05the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 78 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/66

Grantees still filing

39/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,860,500International$2,859,300Education$1,630,500Health$490,000Environment$455,000Human Services$425,000Philanthropy$263,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

The Annenberg FoundationPA16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home