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Triford 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $68,000 |
| MALAMA KULA | $20,170 |
| HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION | $19,500 |
| FIRST DESCENTS | $15,000 |
| RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL | $11,580 |
| PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA | $11,500 |
| BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY | $10,500 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| LITCHFIELD MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCI | $8,000 |
| MANNA FOOD PROJECT | $7,000 |
| ANN'S NEST | $6,500 |
| MCLAREN N MICH HOSPITAL | $6,500 |
| CAMP DAGGETT | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- HHHARBOR HALL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +207%
- FDFIRST DESCENTS9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +159%
- LMLitchfield Montessori School Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- MNMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -71%
- GLGreat Lakes Christian Foundationone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +10%
- BTBOOK TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +55%
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
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…
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Paw Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
86 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. 86 of the 136 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 HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST DESCENTS ↗
- Who funds Litchfield Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Camp Daggett ↗
- Who funds Turning Point for God ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMPASS-FINANCES GOD'S WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Taraloka Foundation ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds MALAMA KULA ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
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: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Oleson Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · Mps Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Baiardi Family Foundation Inc · Affordable Housing Management Foundation · The Kent Foundation · Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy 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 Triford Foundation 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.
- Concrete Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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