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Trel 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.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$467kArts & Culture$414kEducation$280kHealth$173kPhilanthropy$169kEnvironment$167kCivil Rights$140kRecreation & Sports$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLAMETTE VLY WINE FOUNDATION$50,000
ONE AMERICA MOVEMENT$50,000
THE JAPANESE GARDEN SOC OF OREGON$25,000
OREGON BUSINESS CHARITABLE INST$25,000
WILLIAMETTE WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP$25,000
OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT$25,000
YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY$10,000
CARLTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$8,000
MCMINNVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANI$6,000
ZERO WASTE MCMINNVILLE FNDTN$5,000
WITH COURAGE$3,500
FRIENDS OF FAMILY FARMERS$2,500
FARMERS MARKET FUND$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $10k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $3k → 11%YAMHILL CNTY GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%YAMHILL CARLTON TOGETHER CARES: $10k → 11%YAMHILL CARLTON TOGETHER CARES: $5k → 11%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

WA
IL
NY
OR
PA
CA
AZ
DC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Trel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Trel Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$726k · 16 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
31

Total granted

$726k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+15%

Still filing today

63%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +169%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $22k · revenue +26%
  • MA
    MCMINNVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $400k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • TR
    TAINABLE REGENERATIVE AGRICULT LAB
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
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
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Oregon Tilth Inc

Oregon tilth is a leading nonprofit certifier, educator and advocate for sustainable organic agriculture and products since 1974. the organizations mission to make the food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable…

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3
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
4
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
5
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
6
Oregon Community Food System Network

The oregon community food systems network brings people and organizations together to broaden understanding of issues, build relationships and trust, develop common purpose, and create collective capacity to realize our shared vision.

Food & Nutrition
7
Portland Farmers Market

Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…

Community Improvement
8
Portland Fruit Tree Project

To increase equitable access to healthful food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce.

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9
Earth Day Oregon
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10
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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11
The Manav Foundation
Education
12
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Business Council Charitable Institute; the most unlike its peers is With Courage. 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

30 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. 30 of the 53 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $400,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESJAMES BEARD PUBLIC MARKET: $360,500 · OtherJAMES BEARD PUBLIC MARKETCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTAINABLE REGENERATIVE AGRICULT LAB: $100,000 · OtherTAINABLE REGENERATIVE AGRICULT LABWILLAMETTE VLY WINE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherWILLAMETTE VLY WINE FOUNDATIONONE AMERICA MOVEMENT: $75,000 · Other+33 more: $437,820 · Other+33 moreVictory Academy Inc: $100,000 · EducationVictory Acad…Oregon State University Foundation: $75,000 · EducationOregon State…AIESEC LIFE INC: $25,000 · EducationAIESEC LIFE …OREGON BUSINESS COUNCIL CHARITABLE INSTITUTE: $25,000 · EducationOREGON BUSIN…+1 more: $1,500 · EducationThe Pachamama Alliance: $30,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthWITH COURAGE: $13,000 · HealthPORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsFLY FISHING COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Civil RightsWINE COUNTRY PRIDE: $15,000 · Civil RightsYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,623,320Education$226,500Environment$52,000Health$48,000Recreation & Sports$45,000Civil Rights$40,000Community Improvement$30,000

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 budgetVictory Academy Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnerships For Change: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY: $30,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLAMETTE WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAIESEC LIFE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetOREGON BUSINESS COUNCIL CHARITABLE INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINE COUNTRY PRIDE: $15,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetFLY FISHING COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetYamhill Carlton Together Cares Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMCMINNVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $14,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWITH COURAGE: $13,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetJULIETTE'S HOUSE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK JAGUAR WHITE TIGER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFarmers Market Fund: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Family Farmers: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGALLERY PLAYERS OF OREGON: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARTS ALLIANCE OF YAMHILL CO: $2,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAHIVOY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYAMHILL COUNTY GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMcMinnville Kiwanis Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

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 Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Ford Family Found…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationMaybelle Clark Macdon…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…The Roundhouse Founda…The Collins FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR30.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Trel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Farmers Market Fund: 100% of income from government
  • Ahivoy: 29% of income from government
  • Friends of Family Farmers: 9% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Trel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Trel Foundation 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 53 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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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