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TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,342 to it, the largest being BETTY AND LEO BLAZOK FOUNDATION ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$120k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$71k
Net assets
$284k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Trenton Educational Foundation does

Mission

Benefit trenton public schools

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Awarded grants to trenton public schools for innovative educational projects

    $53,805 spent
    48% of program spending
  2. Awarded scholarships for graduating seniors

    $57,500 spent
    52% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $111,305.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($51k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($136k)2018 Revenue 110 ($56k) Expenses 207 ($81k) Net assets 81 ($111k)2019 Revenue 137 ($69k) Expenses 94 ($37k) Net assets 105 ($144k)2021 Revenue 181 ($92k) Expenses 70 ($28k) Net assets 177 ($241k)2022 Revenue 120 ($61k) Expenses 111 ($44k) Net assets 175 ($239k)2023 Revenue 139 ($70k) Expenses 174 ($68k) Net assets 187 ($254k)2024 Revenue 171 ($87k) Expenses 283 ($111k) Net assets 184 ($251k)2025 Revenue 237 ($120k) Expenses 356 ($140k) Net assets 208 ($284k)
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Revenue (237)Expenses (356)Net assets (208)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $111k to $144k (+29%).

$136k
$111k
$144k
$241k
$239k
$254k
$251k
$284k
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
−$25k
’18
$32k
’19
$64k
’21
$17k
’22
$2k
’23
−$25k
’24
−$20k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Linda Kell

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250 → $76.

Funder
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funders
1
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1
1
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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

TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 81% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Against its field

TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

22%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,342 to it, the largest being BETTY AND LEO BLAZOK FOUNDATION ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $71,342 in grants to TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
BETTY AND LEO BLAZOK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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