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Trust Funds Incorporated
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 $10k8 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $493k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN | $25,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD GRACENTER | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF SONOMA | $20,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE | $20,000 |
| CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL SACRAMENTO | $20,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SACRAMENTO | $20,000 |
| SOUTH SACRAMENTO INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP | $20,000 |
| CRISTO REY SAN JOSE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| SACRAMENTO LIFE CENTER | $20,000 |
| PREGNANCY SUPPORT GROUP OF WOODLAND - SPERO MEDICAL | $20,000 |
| SVDP CONTRA COSTA COUNTY | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOLS | $17,500 |
| JESUIT RETREAT CENTER | $15,000 |
| SALESIAN COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $15,000 |
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, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 16 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- SLSacramento Life Center Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +42%
- LFLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN3× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +320%
- IHInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project5× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +222%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $40k
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL SOC CONTRA COSTA COone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY-SONOMAone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation works to empower and support women who are experiencing housing instability and sexual exploitation or trafficking, by creating survivor-centered spaces, services advocacy and community…
The organization works in concert with San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation to provide transitional housing, supportive services, and aftercare to aid and support homeless women who have been commercially sexually exploited…
Mary's Mercy Center reaffirms the dignity of the poor and marginalized by providing food, clothing, and transitional housing to homeless families and individuals.
To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…
To end the cycle of violence and homelessness for women in San Francisco by providing permanent housing and supportive services.
With love, respect and compassion, the Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra provide essential services and transitional support to people experiencing the injustice of homelessness and extreme poverty.
Sacramento Recovery House, Inc., is dedicated to providing gender responsive, trauma informed, residential services to adult persons seeking recovery from substance use disorders.
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
The Napa Women's Center provides life-affirming services to women and men facing reproductive choices and unplanned pregnancy while glorifying Jesus Christ and emulating his mercy and truth. Life is a precious gift, and we offer education…
St. Francis House provides food clothing and necessities at no cost to people with low income or experiencing homelessness in King County Washington. Single men women and families are welcome.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Rosetta 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 80 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 215 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Sacramento Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GROWTH IN WHOLENESS ↗
- Who funds ROSETTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project ↗
- Who funds Free to Be ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds Americans United for Life Inc ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth ↗
- Who funds GOD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BISHOP GALLEGOS MATERNITY HOME ↗
- Who funds Dorothy Day House ↗
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: Odell Rs & Hp Fund Tua-Main · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation · The Joseph & Mercedes McMicking Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Olympic Club Foundation · Koch Foundation Inc · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The OShea 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 Trust Funds Incorporated 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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