· Private foundation
Trehan 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 $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+2 grants · $580k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BITSAA INTERNATIONAL INC | $330,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $250,000 |
| OBAMA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| KENNEDY CENTER | $100,000 |
| WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| ASHIYANAA | $32,750 |
| Pratham USA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FAIR OBSERVER | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FUND | $15,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CREW | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| The Writer's Center | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 46 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +27%- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2017–2024 · $992k · revenue +202% · 51% of their budget
- BIBITSAA INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $660k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HTHINDU TEMPLEone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SRSelf Revelation Churchone grant, 2023 · $100k
- CFCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INCone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -82%
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…
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,…
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 37 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 173 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 THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BITSAA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Fair Observer ↗
- Who funds SAFE WATER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds ASHIYANAA INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds First Look Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY 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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jain Family Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Community Foundation Inc
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 Trehan 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.
- The Writers Center — 6% of income from government
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 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.