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Trent Family 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.

$200k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$102,500
Organizations funded a year
23 to 33
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$388k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Trent Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$197k21%
FY202425$118k4%
FY202329$114k14%
FY202233$104k33%
FY202128$110k21%
FY202028$96k43%
FY201927$90k56%
FY201823$85k43%
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$464kEducation$108kHousing & Shelter$58kCivil Rights$16kHuman Services$11kRecreation & Sports$11kInternational$11kPhilanthropy$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OH
CA
KY
VA
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New City Church$205,1003n/a
Search Ministries Inc$117,0008n/a
Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County$67,65080%
Church at Charlotte$66,5002n/a
Immanuel Baptist Church$27,6001n/a
Roof Above Inc$27,50060%
Kappa Delta Foundation Incorporated$20,00030%
All Souls Charlottesville$16,0009n/a
Greater Charlottesville Habitat for Humanity Inc$12,50060%
The Haven Inc$9,00043%
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All grantees of Trent Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New City Church$205,1003n/a
Search Ministries Inc$117,0008n/a
Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County$67,65080%
Church at Charlotte$66,5002n/a
Immanuel Baptist Church$27,6001n/a
Roof Above Inc$27,50060%
Kappa Delta Foundation Incorporated$20,00030%
All Souls Charlottesville$16,0009n/a
Greater Charlottesville Habitat for Humanity Inc$12,50060%
The Haven Inc$9,00043%
Samaritan's Purse$8,50040%
Charlotte Country Day School$8,10080%
Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region$8,00080%
College Golf Fellowship$8,00080%
Heart Math Tutoring Inc$7,00070%
Tandem Spirituality$6,00061%
Freedom Communities$5,00011%
America's Charities$5,0001n/a
The Home Club Inc$4,00071%
Carolina for Kibera Inc$2,40020%
Dallas Symphony Association$2,00030%
HopeWay Foundation$1,70050%
CHILDRENS CHORUS OF GREATER DALLAS co Dallas Symphony Association INc$1,50050%
Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas$1,50030%
Lexington Rescue Mission$1,50020%
The Lynnwood Foundation$1,10020%
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma$1,00010%
Young Life$50010%
The Joe Martin ALS Foundation$50010%
Greg Gelburd Foundation$5001n/a
Buckhorn Childrens Foundation Inc$50010%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation$50010%
New Hill Development Corporation$50010%
Little League Baseball Inc$50010%
Mint Museum of Art Inc$50010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc$50010%
Shepherd's House Inc$50010%
Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency$50010%
Southern Methodist University$25010%
Mars Hill University$18010%
Bishop Lynch High School$1001n/a
Cliffs Residents Outreach Inc$1001n/a
Theological Horizons$10010%
Carolina Breast Friends Inc$10010%
Edmond Mobile Meals Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($303k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Trent Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County: $67,650 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetRoof Above Inc: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKappa Delta Foundation Incorporated: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Charlottesville Habitat for Humanity Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haven Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Country Day School: $8,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTandem Spirituality: $6,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFreedom Communities: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Home Club Inc: $4,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCarolina for Kibera Inc: $2,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Symphony Association: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS CHORUS OF GREATER DALLAS co Dallas Symphony Association INc: $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLexington Rescue Mission: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lynnwood Foundation: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joe Martin ALS Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuckhorn Childrens Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Cincinnati Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hill Development Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLittle League Baseball Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMint Museum of Art Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShepherd's House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMars Hill University: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheological Horizons: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Breast Friends Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdmond Mobile Meals Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC25.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · William B McGuire Jr Family Foundation · The Perper Family Foundation · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Truist 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.

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About Trent Family Foundation

How much does Trent Family Foundation give?
Trent Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $200,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Trent Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (49%), Education (11%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
Who are Trent Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New City Church ($205k), Search Ministries Inc ($117k), Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ($68k).
Does Trent Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Trent Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Trent Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Dickson Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Trent Family Foundation based?
Trent Family Foundation is based in KY.

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 86 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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