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Trust in Diversity at a glance

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Trust in Diversity

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.

$507k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$365k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Environment$4.5MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$541kReligion$115kFood & Nutrition$80kYouth Development$30kHousing & Shelter$11k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
  • $250k+1 grant · $365k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIBERSHED$365,000
VISHWA NIRMALA DHARMA$110,000
THACHER SCHOOL INC$20,000
EMERSON UMBRELLA INC$7,293
VISHWA NIRMALA DHARMA$5,000
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 (FY21–21, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREATER GOODS OJAI: $41k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 9 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$6.1M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+5%

Still filing today

78%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • F
    FIBERSHED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +202% · 34% of their budget
  • LR
    Lakes Region Conservation Trust
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · revenue +275%
  • UC
    Upper Country Education Foundation Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $781k · revenue +53% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

  • GG
    GREATER GOODS OJAI
    one grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue -90% · 61% of their budget
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +5%
  • CO
    CITY OF BOULDER HOUSING & HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMEN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Unirondack Inc

Our mission is to educate and inspire individuals to develop a deeper understanding of their roles within the interconnected web of life. Through programs that offer physical, mental, and spiritual growth, we promote respect for diverse…

Recreation & Sports
4
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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5
The Gardner School of Arts and Sciences

To cultivate authentic learning through integrated experiences in a supportive community.

Education
6
The Meadows School

The Meadows School devlops in its students a love of, and respect for, learning. Inspiring them to seek knowledge independently and preparing them for higher academic pursuits. The school maintains high standards and seeks to instill in…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Middlebury College

Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.

Education
8
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Berkwood School

Berkwood Hedge School provides a hands-on developmental curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. Our teachers meet the needs of…

Education
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerson Umbrella Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIBERSHED: $3,170,000 · EnvironmentFIBERSHEDLakes Region Conservation Trust: $1,300,000 · EnvironmentLakes Region Conservation TrustUpper Country Education Foundation Inc: $780,500 · EducationUpper Country Ed…The Thacher School Inc: $100,000 · EducationThe Thacher Scho…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE …EMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $415,241 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FENN SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherVISHWA NIRMALA DHARMA: $115,000 · OtherINDOCHINA ARTS PARTNERSHIP INC: $49,000 · OtherHOUSE OF STOKED: $30,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN: $70,000 · Food & NutritionMDP FOUNDATION DBA MARTIN DE PORRES HOUSE: $10,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER GOODS OJAI: $41,455 · Human ServicesUpper Country Eldercare Coalition Inc dba Salubria Center: $1,200 · Housing & Shelter
Environment$4,470,000Education$955,500Arts & Culture$450,241Other$404,000Food & Nutrition$80,000Human Services$41,455Housing & Shelter$1,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIBERSHED: $3,170,000 over 9y, 34% of budgetUpper Country Education Foundation Inc: $780,500 over 6y, 97% of budgetEMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $415,241 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN: $70,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetGREATER GOODS OJAI: $41,455 over 1y, 61% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMDP FOUNDATION DBA MARTIN DE PORRES HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUpper Country Eldercare Coalition Inc dba Salubria Center: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 in Diversity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trust in Diversity. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Emerson Umbrella Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–15%
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 16 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home