· Private foundation
Trellis Charitable Fund
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 $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $725k
- $250k+8 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIES UNION | $1,000,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER | $750,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $750,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $400,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $350,000 |
| THE MARSHALL PROJECT | $300,000 |
| PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING | $250,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $250,000 |
| FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS | $200,000 |
| MANN DESHI FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE 19TH NEWS | $75,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUESUM | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY | $30,000 |
| GLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC6× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +53%
- PCPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING7× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +227%
- NGNational Gallery of Art6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +29%
Funded once
- WIWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCEone grant, 2022 · $350k
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $75k
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 Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
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…
Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
The fuller project is the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for 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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 29 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 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODLEY HOUSE 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: Open Society Institute · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Trellis Charitable Fund 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.
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.