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Trott Family Philanthropies Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$31MRecreation & Sports$4.2MInternational$4.0MArts & Culture$3.5MHealth$2.4MEnvironment$2.3MCrime & Legal$1.7MPublic Benefit$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k52 grants · $8.6M
  • $250k+16 grants · $8.7M
$200,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$98M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Scholarship Foundation of St Louis$1,094,626
Ohio State University Foundation$1,000,000
National World War II Museum Inc$1,000,000
University of Chicago$700,000
University of Chicago$700,000
Stand Together Foundation$500,000
American Overseas Memorial Day Foundation$500,000
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cance$500,000
Northwestern University$500,000
Horatio Alger Association of Distinguishe$400,000
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab$400,000
Washington University$300,000
University of Texas at Austin (Foundation$300,000
Horatio Alger Association of Distinguishe$275,000
University of Chicago$250,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Tory Burch Foundation Inc: $25k → 17%Tory Burch Foundation Inc: $25k → 17%Project Fire Buddies Inc: $5k → 14%The Growing Season Inc: $75k → 14%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

ME
NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Trott Family Philanthropies Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 24%.

Trott Family Philanthropies Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 32 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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32

Total granted

$35M
$6.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+14%

Still filing today

69%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • University of Chicago
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +34%
  • HA
    HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +50%
  • TS
    THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • RA
    ROOTED ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.1M · revenue +425% · 47% of their budget
  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +31%
  • TS
    THE SEMINAR NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +194%
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.

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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
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
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
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
8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rooted Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 103 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
52/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago: $9,233,333 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $3,296,064 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INCROOTED ALLIANCE INC: $2,100,000 · EducationROOTED ALLIANCE INCOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $900,000 · Education+21 more: $6,750,000 · Education+21 moreOhio State University: $4,150,000 · OtherOhio State UniversityTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $2,691,638 · OtherTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUISSAFE Project US: $1,000,000 · OtherSAFE Project USUNICEF: $800,000 · OtherHoratio Alger Association of Distinguishe: $750,823 · Other+49 more: $8,759,623 · Other+49 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,925,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1,550,000 · International+4 more: $125,000 · InternationalCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $150,000 · Environment+1 more: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $85,000 · Arts & CultureRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $800,000 · HealthRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $353,000 · HealthDKMS: $50,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INC: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $40,000 · HealthNorthwestern University: $1,100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$23,479,397Other$18,152,084International$3,600,000Environment$2,200,000Arts & Culture$2,185,000Health$1,293,000Recreation & Sports$1,100,000

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 budgetUniversity of Chicago: $9,233,333 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $3,296,064 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $2,691,638 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetROOTED ALLIANCE INC: $2,100,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,925,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1,550,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $900,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $800,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $700,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStand Together Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONCORDANCE: $500,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $353,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECIPE FOR CHANGE: $175,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $165,723 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $110,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Cubs Charities: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROGER FEDERER CHARITABLE FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetDKMS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…The Trott Family Foun…The Ayco Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Federation of …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Orange County Communi…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Communities Foundatio…
The Chicago Community TrustIL21× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Trott Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Orange County Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Trott Family Philanthropies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trott Family Philanthropies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Trott Family Philanthropies Inc?

Find your warmest path to Trott Family Philanthropies Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 103 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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