Massachusetts · Nonprofit
TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION
TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $975,397 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($369,030). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $335k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $975k
- Net assets
- $0
What Travis Roy Foundation does
Mission
The primary focus of the trust is the rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries and research and educational programs relating to such injuries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization has wound down all operations in accordance with the wishes of its late founder travis roy and per the plan of liquidation adopted by the board of trustees on june 28, 2023. All assets were distributed and liabilities settled as of september 30, 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Support to enchance the lives of individuals with spinal cord injuries and their families by providing adaptive equipment resulting in self-reliance and the ability to be as independent as possible.
$84,333 spentof which $84,333 as grants22% of program spendingGrants to organizations that support a smiliar mission to that of the foundation
$270,000 spentof which $270,000 as grants71% of program spendingTo support the formation of the travis roy center for enhanced independence
$25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $379,333.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.4M to $1.2M (−81%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Chief executive
Lisa Kielt
Executive director
Board chair
Arthur B Page
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $173k → $49k.
14 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Travis Roy Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of TRAVIS ROY 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
TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 31% · 2019 45% · 2020 62% · 2021 46% · 2022 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
31% of TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $139k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $836k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Organizations like TRAVIS ROY 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Travis Roy Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRAVIS ROY 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 TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION?
- TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $975,397 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($369,030). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $975,397 in grants to TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $369,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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