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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.8MPublic Benefit$1.2MHealth$1.1MEducation$920kInternational$368kReligion$350kEnvironment$123kFood & Nutrition$97kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+2 grants · $580k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GLOBAL PERFORMING ARTS$5,000
CREW$5,000
The Writer's Center$2,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $5k → 6%ASHIYANAA: $33k → 8%ASHIYANAA: $10k → 8%LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $200 → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $100 → 6%World Food Program: $1k → 14%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 61 repeat orgs$774k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
109

Total granted

$5.7M
$772k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+13%

Still filing today

66%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +27%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2017–2024 · $992k · revenue +202% · 51% of their budget
  • BI
    BITSAA INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $660k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • HT
    HINDU TEMPLE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • SR
    Self Revelation Church
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -82%
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
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
2
Observer Research Foundation America

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…

International
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
4
The Fund for Peace Inc

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…

International
5
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
6
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
7
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

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,…

International
8
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
9
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

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…

International
10
International Women's Forum Inc

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…

Education
11
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/106
Grantees still filing
74/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNEDY CENTER: $1,057,500 · OtherKENNEDY CENTERUniversity of Michigan: $992,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan+112 more: $1,319,422 · Other+112 moreTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $300,001 · Arts & CultureHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INCWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $145,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PE…Fair Observer: $135,000 · Arts & CultureFair Observer+8 more: $97,700 · Arts & Culture+8 moreBITSAA INTERNATIONAL INC: $660,000 · EducationBITSAA INTER…JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+11 more: $44,350 · Education+11 moreCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $250,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC: $35,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $26,000 · InternationalThe American Himalayan Foundation: $15,000 · International+10 more: $37,950 · InternationalSAFE WATER NETWORK: $85,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $26,000 · Environment+2 more: $2,100 · EnvironmentCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $57,000 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $11,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $450 · Food & NutritionWOODLEY HOUSE INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $20,000 · Health+10 more: $7,025 · Health
Other$3,368,922Arts & Culture$1,782,701Education$729,350International$363,950Environment$113,100Food & Nutrition$68,450Health$67,025

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 budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,105,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $992,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetBITSAA INTERNATIONAL INC: $660,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $300,001 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $145,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFair Observer: $135,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetSAFE WATER NETWORK: $85,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $57,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASHIYANAA INC: $42,750 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetWOODLEY HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOME INC: $28,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Look Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA: $15,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL PERFORMING ARTS INC: $11,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $5,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBROWARD TABLE TENNIS CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds First Look Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jain Family Foundatio…Greater Washington Co…Verizon FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundThe Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…S&P Global Foundation…Hopewell FundGs Donor Advised Phil…The Community Foundat…
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY16× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 173 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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