New York · Private foundation
Tri-M Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,216
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Tri-M Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $57k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $52k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $63k | 86% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $60k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $64k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $61k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penfold Theatre Company | $10,216 | 1 | 2% |
| Springboard for the Arts | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| On Site Opera Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Staibdance Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Arena Dances Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| The Heritage Signature Chorale | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| The Pop-Up Project | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Cleveland Chamber Choir | $10,000 | 1 | 33% |
| The Nebraska Communities Playhouse | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penfold Theatre Company | $10,216 | 1 | 2% |
| Springboard for the Arts | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| On Site Opera Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Staibdance Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Arena Dances Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| The Heritage Signature Chorale | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| The Pop-Up Project | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Cleveland Chamber Choir | $10,000 | 1 | 33% |
| The Nebraska Communities Playhouse | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Ego Po Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Icarus Quartet Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rapid Lemon Productions | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Theatre Nohgaku Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mas | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Landlocked Opera Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York Foundation for the Arts Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Puppeteers of America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Anaconda Ensemble Theatre | $9,300 | 1 | n/a |
| St Louis Dance Theatre | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Norway House | $5,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Partnerships for Lawrence Inc | $5,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Dance Initiative Inc | $4,775 | 1 | 2% |
| Ars Minerva | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Oregon East Symphony | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($137k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tri-M Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Tri-M Foundation
- How much does Tri-M Foundation give?
- Tri-M Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $56,516 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tri-M Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (92%), Education (8%).
- Who are Tri-M Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Penfold Theatre Company ($10k), Springboard for the Arts ($10k), Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective ($10k).
- Does Tri-M Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tri-M Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tri-M Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Tri-M Foundation based?
- Tri-M Foundation is based in NY.
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