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Trellis Charitable Fund at a glance

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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.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$4.4MInternational$3.9MPublic Benefit$2.6MArts & Culture$2.5MCrime & Legal$2.5MEnvironment$750kScience & Tech$350kPhilanthropy$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $725k
  • $250k+8 grants · $4.0M
$200,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$120M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION$200,000
FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS$200,000
MANN DESHI 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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIES UNION: $1.0M → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $400k → 11%GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: $300k → 17%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $200k → 11%GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIES UNION: $200k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $200k → 11%GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION: $150k → 8%CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $750k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $200k → 11%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $350k → 17%CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $100k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $200k → 11%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $300k → 17%CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $100k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $125k → 11%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $300k → 17%CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $100k → 14%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $250k → 17%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $150k → 17%THE MARSHALL PROJECT: $300k → 17%THE MARSHALL PROJECT: $300k → 17%THE MARSHALL PROJECT: $150k → 17%PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $500k → 14%THE MARSHALL PROJECT: $150k → 17%PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $500k → 14%THE MARSHALL PROJECT: $100k → 17%FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS: $300k → 14%PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $250k → 14%PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $200k → 14%PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $200k → 14%FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS: $200k → 14%PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $200k → 14%FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS: $200k → 14%PROPUBLICA: $250k → 17%PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $200k → 14%PROPUBLICA: $250k → 17%FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS: $150k → 14%PROPUBLICA: $200k → 17%PROPUBLICA: $200k → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FDTN: $150k → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FDTN: $150k → 17%PROPUBLICA: $200k → 14%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $150k → 14%PROPUBLICA: $150k → 14%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $150k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 19 repeat orgs$733k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$17M
$615k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+40%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalPublic BenefitCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PC
    PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +227%
  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +57%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • WI
    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
    one grant, 2022 · $350k
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -34%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
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
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

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
2
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

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.

International
3
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
4
Center for Global Development

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…

Human Services
5
Center for International Policy Inc

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…

International
6
Fuller Project for International Reporting Inc

The fuller project is the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women.

International
7
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
8
Npr Foundation

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…

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9
World Resources Institute

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…

International
10
National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $3,910,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,037,500 · InternationalFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC+1 more: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIES UNION: $1,200,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIE…PROPUBLICA: $350,000 · OtherPROPUBLICAWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $350,000 · OtherWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SC…CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $300,000 · OtherCENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE …MANN DESHI FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherMANN DESHI FOUNDATIONAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FDTN: $300,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES…GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION: $750,000 · OtherGLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATIO…+4 more: $178,000 · OtherNational Gallery of Art: $1,350,000 · Arts & CultureNational Galler…PRO PUBLICA INC: $900,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC+6 more: $205,000 · Arts & Culture+6 morePULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $2,200,000 · Public BenefitPULITZER CENTE…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,350,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER…THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $150,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRI…THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER …GLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER: $80,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $1,225,000 · Crime & LegalTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $1,150,000 · Community Improvement
International$5,047,500Other$3,728,000Arts & Culture$2,455,000Public Benefit$2,200,000Civil Rights$1,680,000Crime & Legal$1,225,000Community Improvement$1,150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $3,910,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $2,200,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $1,350,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,350,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $1,225,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $1,150,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,037,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $900,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWITNESS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER: $80,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOODLEY HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Open Society InstituteWellspring Philanthro…Foundation to Promote…Greater Washington Co…Amalgamated Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Open Society InstituteNY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 29 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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