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Trilith Foundation Inc
Trilith foundation exists to enrich the lives of the creators and the makers who inspire the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEARING BIKE WORKS | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN CRESCENT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $17,573 |
| SOUTHSIDE SUPPORT | $17,573 |
| HEALING BRIDGE CLINIC | $17,573 |
| FAYETTE SENIOR SERVICES | $17,573 |
| PROMISE PLACE | $8,787 |
| SOUTHERN CONSERVATION TRUST | $8,787 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $8,787 |
| THE EDEN PROJECT | $8,787 |
| TWO SPARROWS VILLAGE INC | $8,787 |
| FINE ARTS & CRAFTS ENTREPRENEURS | $8,786 |
| FOUNDRY ACADEMY | $8,786 |
| FAYETTEVILLE FIRE FOUNDATION | $8,786 |
| CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND | $8,786 |
| CHRISTIAN CITY | $8,786 |
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 (FY23–24, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +20% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- TETHE EDEN PROJECT - A WARRIOR SUPPORT FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $36k · revenue +28%
- FSFAYETTE SENIOR SERVICES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $36k · revenue +20%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP2× · 2023–2024 · $34k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TITRILITH INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · 30% of their budget
- BBLOOMone grant, 2023 · $27k
- TFThe Forest Schoolone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -9%
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.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
Thrive Academy is a private Christian school using education as a platform to reach, disciple, and empower students facing systemic injustice, childhood trauma, and poverty. With student housing, engaging curriculum, and intentional…
To promote employment and education opportunities that strengthen the workforce and economic development in our community.
Fayetteville academy is an independent, college preparatory school (prek- 12) that encourages students to achieve their full potential by offering exceptional opportunities in academics, fine arts, and athletics. the academy emphasizes…
For more than 230 years, Landmarks for Families has been a refuge for thousands of children and youth, providing services and support for children who have experienced trauma in our community. Known as a leader and champion for children in…
The mission of communities in schools of atlanta, inc. (cis) is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
The mission of leap year inc is to prepare young, talented students to reach their academic and leadership potential by attending college and breaking the cycle of poverty.
Partnering for safe and healthy communities.
To strengthen the well-being and development of families and individuals through professional human services programs, including therapy, counseling, education, special assistance, and advocacy.
Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the csra through programs designed to build healthy spirit, mind, and body, reflecting the values of the judeo-christian tradition while maintaining respect for all people.
We are westbridge vocational--a social enterprise connecting people to opportunity through our quality-driven manufacturing. we are dedicated to empowering all people with barriers to employment by providing training opportunities that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Crescent Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Eden Project - a Warrior Support Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 79% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 TRILITH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDEN PROJECT - A WARRIOR SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds Two Sparrows Village Inc ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Christian City Inc ↗
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds The Forest School ↗
- Who funds COCOS CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds CLEARWATER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Southside Support INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CRESCENT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING BRIDGE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Fayette Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundry Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOM OUR YOUTH 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Clothes Less Traveled Thrift Shop Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Renasant Community Foundation · Coweta-Fayette Trust Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Trilith Foundation Inc 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.
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