New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE TRAIN FOUNDATION
THE TRAIN FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being JJC Foundation ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $389k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What The Train Foundation does
Program
The Train Foundation sponsors the civil courage prize for steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk. The prize of $25,000 is awarded annually by the trustees of The Train Foundation at an event, after a worldwide call for nominations, and participation by the advisors in winnowing the candidates. The services required to do this are paid for by the foundation. By increasing awareness of civil courage, the fund's trustees hope to encourage that virtue.the 2025 civil courage prize event was postponed until may 2026.
$137,817 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $192k to $1.3M (+584%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
George Biddle
Chairman and trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $40k.
From the IRS filings of THE TRAIN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE TRAIN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
THE TRAIN FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE TRAIN FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE TRAIN FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TRAIN FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TRAIN FOUNDATION?
- THE TRAIN FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being JJC Foundation ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TRAIN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $285,000 in grants to THE TRAIN FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TRAIN FOUNDATION?
- JJC Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TRAIN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing