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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.

$520k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.0MHealth$503kReligion$451kHuman Services$433kHousing & Shelter$275kFood & Nutrition$130kYouth Development$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$118kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $493k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN$25,000
PREGNANCY SUPPORT GROUP OF WOODLAND - SPERO MEDICAL$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
SVDP CONTRA COSTA COUNTY$20,000
ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
GOOD SHEPHERD GRACENTER$20,000
SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOLS$17,500
CARE THROUGH TOUCH INSTITUTE$15,000
ICA CRISTO REY ACADEMY$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $257k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPTIONS UNITED: $10k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FAMILY & LIFE ADVOCATES: $15k → 8%OPTIONS UNITED: $10k → 14%EPIPHANY CENTER: $20k → 10%OPTIONS UNITED: $8k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FAMILY&LIFE ADVOCATES: $8k → 8%BY THE BAY HEALTH: $5k → 8%EPIPHANY CENTER: $15k → 10%EPIPHANY CENTER: $5k → 10%BISHOP GALLEGOS MATERNITY HOME: $8k → 12%EPIPHANY CENTER: $5k → 10%BISHOP GALLEGOS MATERNITY HOME: $6k → 12%BISHOP GALLEGOS MATERNITY HOME: $3k → 12%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $15k → 10%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $20k → 12%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $10k → 10%STANFORD SETTLEMENT NEIGHBORHOOD CE: $8k → 12%INSIGHT HOUSINGBERKELEY FOOD & HOUSING PROJECT: $15k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD HOUSING PROJECT: $10k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD HOUSING PROJECT: $10k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD HOUSING PROJECT: $8k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD HOUSING PROJECT: $5k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT CARE CENTER: $15k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%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

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NY
OR
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
AZ
DC
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 86 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
112

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+47%

Still filing today

30%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SL
    Sacramento Life Center Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +42%
  • LF
    LOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN
    3× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +320%
  • IH
    Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project
    5× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +270%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOC CONTRA COSTA CO
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SJ
    ST JARLATH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation

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…

Unclassified
2
San Francisco Safehouse

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…

Human Services
3
Mary's Mercy Center

Mary's Mercy Center reaffirms the dignity of the poor and marginalized by providing food, clothing, and transitional housing to homeless families and individuals.

Food & Nutrition
4
Serra Residential Center Inc

To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities

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5
The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter
6
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego

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…

Human Services
7
Mary Elizabeth Inn the

To end the cycle of violence and homelessness for women in San Francisco by providing permanent housing and supportive services.

Human Services
8
Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra

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.

Human Services
9
Sacramento Recovery House Inc

Sacramento Recovery House, Inc., is dedicated to providing gender responsive, trauma informed, residential services to adult persons seeking recovery from substance use disorders.

Health
10
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa

Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.

Human Services
11
Napa Womens Center Napa Womens Center

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…

Human Services
12
St Francis House

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 214 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+171 more: $3,263,570 · Other+171 moreInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $48,000 · Human ServicesMount St Joseph-St Elizabeth: $45,000 · Human ServicesBISHOP GALLEGOS MATERNITY HOME: $31,500 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $28,000 · Human ServicesOPTIONS UNITED: $27,500 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $25,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25,000 · Human ServicesNational Institute of Family and Life Advocates: $22,500 · Human ServicesLIFE PERSPECTIVES: $20,000 · Human ServicesMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $17,500 · Human ServicesSacramento Life Center Inc: $72,500 · HealthREALOPTIONS: $24,800 · HealthCLARAS HOUSE INC: $20,000 · HealthVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $20,000 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthOptions Health: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthSACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL: $47,500 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationFamily Promise of Sacramento: $22,500 · EducationFree to Be: $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentDorothy Day House: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Guardsmen: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN: $51,000 · Food & NutritionAmericans United for Life Inc: $45,000 · Civil RightsShepherds Gate: $14,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,263,570Human Services$305,000Health$172,300Education$115,000Youth Development$82,500Food & Nutrition$51,000Civil Rights$45,000Housing & Shelter$14,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSacramento Life Center Inc: $72,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR GROWTH IN WHOLENESS: $59,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetROSETTA FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN: $51,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $48,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco: $47,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFree to Be: $47,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMount St Joseph-St Elizabeth: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGOD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS INC: $43,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetBISHOP GALLEGOS MATERNITY HOME: $31,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetDorothy Day House: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $28,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPTIONS UNITED: $27,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetVilla Siena Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREALOPTIONS: $24,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSt Francis Center: $23,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Promise of Sacramento: $22,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNational Institute of Family and Life Advocates: $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPregnancy Support Group of Woodland Inc Crisis Pregnancy Hotline: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCristo Rey High School Sacramento: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFE PERSPECTIVES: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH SACRAMENTO INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCLARAS HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE GUBBIO PROJECT INC: $18,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOptions Health: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShepherds Gate: $14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD SETTLEMENT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIFE TEEN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Guardsmen: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBY THE BAY HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY: $5,000 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.

  • 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 SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds Free to Be ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth ↗
  • Who funds Americans United for Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP GALLEGOS MATERNITY HOME ↗
  • Who funds Dorothy Day House ↗

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.

Odell Rs & Hp Fund Tu…The William G Irwin C…The Carl Gellert and …The Joseph & Mercedes…Heffernan Group Found…Olympic Club Foundati…Koch Foundation IncCatholic Community Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…The OShea Foundation
Odell Rs & Hp Fund Tua-MainMO49.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Trust Funds Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trust Funds Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report 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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    Find your warmest path to Trust Funds Incorporated 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 214 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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