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Triumph Gulf Coast Inc

Tallahassee, FL · EIN 82-1840264. Reported 81 grants totalling $194.6M to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

1. What kind of organization it is. For Triumph Gulf Coast Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
2. How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 20% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
3. How much its list changes. 74% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $1,082,481. Half of what it reported fell between $180,000 and $2,530,610; the smallest was $18,000 and the largest $32.5M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

20 of 29 (69%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners $32.5M · 2024
  FUNDING WILL PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BYPASS AROUND CRESTVIEW TO DIVERT TRAFFIC FROM STATE ROAD 85 TO AREAS IN AND AROUND CRESTVIEW TO THE WEST.
• Wakulla County School Board $11.7M · 2024
  THE GRANT WILL PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE WAR EAGLE ACADEMY. IT INCLUDES EXPANDING CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN WAKULLA COUNTY TO MEET WORKFORCE DEMAINDS IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SURROUNDING AREAS.
• Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners $9,843,433 · 2023
  THE GRANT WOULD PROVIDE FUNDING FOR PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION TO THE I-10 INDUSTRIAL PARK THAT WILL HOUSE A PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICAL DEVICE DISTRIBUTION COMPANY.
• City of Panama City $9,514,872 · 2022
  THIS GRANT WILL ASSIST IN INCREASING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH A PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN PANAMA CITY AND EASTERN SHIPBUILDING GROUP, PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT FOR THE MANUFACTURING, LAUNCHING AND OUTFITTING OF TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD OFFSHORE PATROL CUTTERS AT ITS SHIPYARDS IN PANAMA CITY.
• Pensacola State College $9,203,752 · 2023
  THIS GRANT WILL ASSIST IN HELPING MEET THE UNMET JOB DEMANDS OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL EMPLOYERS BY INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE'S COMMERCIAL VHEICLE DRIVING PROGRAM THROUGH SCHOLARSHIPS AND THE USE OF SIMULATION. THE TRUCK DRIVING PROGRAM WAS STARTED IN DECEMBER 2019 AND ENABLES STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENY AS WELL AS HELP THE LOCAL BUSINESS THAT ARE SEEKING TO HIRE QUALIFIED AND CREDENTIALED TRUCK DRIVERS.
• Northwest Florida State College $8,397,016 · 2024
  THE GRANT WILL PROVIDE FUNDING TO ESTABLISH THE WALTON WORKS TRAINING CENTER OF EXCELLENCE TO INCREASE NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE'S ABILITY TO PROVIDE INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED CREDENTIALS AND EXPAND PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS THE UNMET HIRING NEEDS OF EMPLOYERS IN THE REGION. ADDITIONAL FUNDING IS REQUESTED TO CREAT THE AVIATION CENTER OF EXCELLENCE TO ESTABLISH WORKFORCE TRAINING PROGRAMS AT THE CRESTVIEW TECHNOLOGY AIR PARK IN OKALOOSA COUNTY.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 3 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Giving by year

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

How to approach this grantmaker

1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $1,082,481 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Triumph Gulf Coast Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 12007, Tallahassee, FL, 32317.

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