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TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC

TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,307 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($311,326). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$8k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$663k
Net assets
$0
2/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Travis Roy Foundation Inc does

Mission

Primary focus of the organization is to support the travis roy foundation in its mission to support rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries and research & educational programs relating to such injuries.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

The organization has wound down its operations in accordance with the wishes of its late founder travis roy and in accordance with the plan of liquidation adopted by the board of directors on june 28, 2023. As of september 30, 2024, all assets were distributed and all liabilities settled.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Support to the travis roy foundation to further its mission of rehabilitation of individuals with spinal cord injuries and research and educational programs related to such injuries and support to other charitable organizations.

    $395,509 spentof which $382,181 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $395,509.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($863k) Expenses 100 ($293k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 163 ($1.4M) Expenses 819 ($2.4M) Net assets 51 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 217 ($1.9M) Expenses 689 ($2.0M) Net assets 43 ($875k)2020 Revenue 142 ($1.2M) Expenses 436 ($1.3M) Net assets 51 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 149 ($1.3M) Expenses 474 ($1.4M) Net assets 46 ($933k)2022 Revenue 123 ($1.1M) Expenses 363 ($1.1M) Net assets 44 ($895k)2023 Revenue 24 ($204k) Expenses 229 ($673k) Net assets 21 ($426k)2024 Revenue 1 ($8k) Expenses 148 ($433k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (1)Expenses (148)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.0M to $1.1M (−48%).

$2.0M
$1.1M
$901k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$912k
$509k
$0
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$569k
’17
−$997k
’18
−$147k
’19
−$58k
’20
−$104k
’21
−$3k
’22
−$469k
’23
−$426k
’24
9.1
months of
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

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1212121212121213
Joined·+0+1+0+0+1+0+1
No longer listed·0100100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $203k → $6k.

8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC’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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 INC.

47%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 45% · 2020 64% · 2021 46% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

33% of TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 17% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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 FY2023, 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

75% of TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC'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 $165k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.

VT
MA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’21
’22
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $499k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Travis Roy Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC?
TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,307 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($311,326). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $663,307 in grants to TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $311,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION INC 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 12 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