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Trudeau Family 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.

$99k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$108kHuman Services$105kReligion$74kEducation$73kInternational$32kFood & Nutrition$32kAnimals$29kCivil Rights$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$15,000
IOSCO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$15,000
DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST MARY$15,000
LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$5,000
DETROIT RESCUE MISSION$5,000
ST ANSELM CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$2,500
ANGELA HOSPICE$2,500
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$2,000
GOODWILL IND OF SE MICHIGAN$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%ANGELA HOSPICE: $5k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $5k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $4k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $3k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $3k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $2k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $1k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MI
NY
CA
VA
TN
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$443k · 20 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
11

Total granted

$443k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+11%

Still filing today

60%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +78%
  • AH
    ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +37%
  • LD
    LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CU
    Citizens United Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -67%
  • TM
    THOMAS MORE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Center for a Humane Economy Inc

There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…

Animals
4
Michigan State University College of Law

The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…

5
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
6
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
7
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
8
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
9
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
10
Life Legal Defense Foundation

The mission of life legal defense foundation (lldf) is to give innocent and helpless human beings of any age, particularly unborn children, a trained and comitted defense against the threat of death, and to support their advocates in the…

Civil Rights
11
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.

12
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy

The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas More Society and the most unlike its peers is Dearborn Rotary Foundation. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST MARY — $55,000 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST MARYSALVATION ARMY — $54,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL — $54,000 · OtherLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLST VINCENT DE PAUL — $30,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAULCAPUCHIN PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH — $24,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPHGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF SE MI — $18,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF SE MISACRED HEART SEMINARY — $14,000 · Other+15 more — $56,500 · Other+15 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $55,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'…Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries — $23,500 · HealthDetroit Rescue Mi…+2 more — $1,500 · HealthANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesANGELA HOSP…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $20,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS…THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER — $10,500 · Human ServicesTHOMAS MORE…IOSCO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $15,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $7,000 · AnimalsDETROIT DOG RESCUE — $4,500 · AnimalsHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $19,000 · EducationFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $12,500 · Food & NutritionDEARBORN ROTARY FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Community Improvement
Other$305,500Health$80,000Human Services$53,000Animals$26,500Education$19,000Food & Nutrition$12,500Community Improvement$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries — $23,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC — $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER — $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT DOG RESCUE — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens United Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNON CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
  • Who funds ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds IOSCO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
  • Who funds DEARBORN ROTARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER
  • Who funds COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER
  • Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE
  • Who funds Citizens United Foundation
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY
  • Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER
  • Who funds COTS
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D
  • Who funds THE LENNON CENTER

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Trudeau Family 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Trudeau Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Trudeau Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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