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William & Ann Trebilcock 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$70kHealth$25kHuman Services$15kFood & Nutrition$9kEducation$7kInternational$7kReligion$2kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$326k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$7,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
SALVATION ARMY$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$2,500
FOOD BANK OF IOWA$2,500
COVENANT HOUSE$1,250
AMBERS ANTIBODIES$1,250
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $500 → 17%AMBERS ANTIBODIES: $3k → 10%FOOD PANTRY OF BONITA SPRINGS: $3k → 11%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 5%ELLIPSIS IOWA: $15k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%LUEKEMIA FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $300 → 17%AMBERS ANTIBODIES: $2k → 10%ELLIPSIS IOWA: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%HAROLD EINSTEIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%AMBERS ANTIBODIES: $2k → 10%ELLIPSIS IOWA: $10k → 10%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%AMBERS ANTIBODIES: $2k → 10%ELLIPSIS IOWA: $3k → 10%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%AMBERS ANTIBODIES: $1k → 10%FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $3k → 10%ST JUDES HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%AMBERS ANTIBODIES: $1k → 10%FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $2k → 10%ST JUDES HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%AMBERS ANTIBODIES: $1k → 10%FOOD BANK OF IOWA: $2k → 10%AMBERS ANTIBODIES: $1k → 10%IOWA YOUTH HOMES: $20k → 10%AMBERS ANTIBODIES: $1k → 10%YOUTH HOMES: $14k → 10%IOWA YOUTH HOMES: $12k → 10%MAKE A WISH: $1k → 10%IOWA YOUTH HOMES: $12k → 10%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%IOWA YOUTH HOMES: $10k → 10%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 10%PLYMOUTH CHURCH: $1k → 10%PLYMOUTH CHURCH: $1k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $300 → 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

IL
WI
NY
IA
MO
MD
KS
TN
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$150k · 14 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$150k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+15%

Still filing today

43%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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

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HealthInternationalFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • AA
    AMBERS ANTIBODIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +386%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +125%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • YH
    YOUTH HOMES
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
  • HE
    HAROLD EINSTEIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • AA
    ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
Iowa Medical Society

Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.

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4
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
5
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
6
Meriter Health Services Inc

Meriter is dedicated to improving the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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8
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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9
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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10
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
11
Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp

We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health services-iowa is a member of trinity health.

Health
12
Lifebanc

Mission: lifebanc saves and heals lives.vision: pursuing a future where organ, eye and tissue donation is embraced as an honor and a personal responsibility.values: service, teamwork, integrity, commitment, innovation, quality.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ambers Antibodies Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA YOUTH HOMES: $53,500 · OtherIOWA YOUTH HOMESIndividual grant recipient: $37,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUTH HOMES: $14,000 · OtherYOUTH HOMESSALVATION ARMY: $9,250 · OtherSALVATION ARMY+11 more: $16,100 · Other+11 moreAMBERS ANTIBODIES INC: $14,500 · PhilanthropyAMBERS AN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,250 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $1,000 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,900 · InternationalFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $5,500 · Food & NutritionHOPE MINISTRIES: $2,500 · Human ServicesLAND O LAKES AREA ARTISANS INC: $200 · Arts & Culture
Other$130,350Philanthropy$14,500Health$8,250Education$7,000International$6,900Food & Nutrition$5,500Human Services$2,500Arts & Culture$200

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 budgetAMBERS ANTIBODIES INC: $14,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAND O LAKES AREA ARTISANS INC: $200 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 AMBERS ANTIBODIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAND O LAKES AREA ARTISANS INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William & Ann Trebilcock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Ann Trebilcock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to William & Ann Trebilcock Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to William & Ann Trebilcock 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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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