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Tronvold 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.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$257kReligion$141kPhilanthropy$136kHuman Services$46kPublic Benefit$13kHealth$5kAnimals$4kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $4k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$200
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH$55,201
UNITED WAY SUNCOAST$500
CRITTER CRUSADERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS I$500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$300
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$250
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$250
MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION$250
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$250
FOLDS OF HONOR$250
SAMARITANS PURSE$200
SEMPER FI AMERICAS FUND$200
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$200
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$200
PIPE HITTER FOUNDATION$100
TIME OF GRACE$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $250 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $50 → 7%GUADALUPE CENTER: $103 → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER: $100 → 10%FOUR OAKS: $6k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $5k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $5k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGR: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$478k · 41 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
23

Total granted

$478k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+29%

Still filing today

71%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • AM
    AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +573%
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +28%
  • FO
    FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • HA
    HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • HA
    HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…

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7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
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
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
10
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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11
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
12
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Underdog Rescue of Florida Inc. 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

43 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. 43 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
36/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH: $133,828 · OtherRISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCHMERCY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherMERCY FOUNDATIONTERRACES AT BONITA SPRINGS FOUNDATION: $21,000 · OtherTERRACES AT BONITA SPRINGS FOUNDATION+32 more: $47,378 · Other+32 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $103,550 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $99,579 · EducationAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $32,700 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC+5 more: $9,844 · EducationGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $9,500 · PhilanthropyZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $3,400 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15,500 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $5,200 · Human ServicesMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,750 · Human Services+2 more: $853 · Human ServicesTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $4,450 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $900 · Public BenefitMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $3,250 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $350 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthNAPLES ZOO INC: $2,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $635 · AnimalsCritter Crusaders of Cedar Rapids Inc: $500 · Animals+3 more: $300 · Animals
Other$302,206Education$245,673Philanthropy$31,900Human Services$23,303Public Benefit$12,350Health$6,300Animals$3,435

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $103,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $99,579 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $32,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $4,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,330 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $3,400 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,305 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $2,059 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $802 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $635 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $619 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCritter Crusaders of Cedar Rapids Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIPE HITTER FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $203 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFor the Love of Cats Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERDOG RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds AVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗

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.

Alliant Energy Founda…Mercy Medical CenterGreenState Credit Uni…Greater Cedar Rapids …First Interstate Banc…Rohde Family Charitab…United Fire Group Fou…The Accel FoundationUnited Way of East Ce…Rsm US FoundationCarleen and Eugene Gr…The Hall-Perrine Foun…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Mercy Medical Center · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The Accel Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · Rsm US Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · The Hall-Perrine 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 Tronvold Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tronvold Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • United Way Suncoast Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 68 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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