Missouri · Private foundation
August a Busch III Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 69
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations August a Busch III Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 61 | $1.7M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $2.5M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $3.0M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $3.6M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $2.2M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $4.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Baptist Healthcare Foundation | $2,700,000 | 6 | 15% |
| St Peters Senior Citizens Corporation | $1,841,616 | 6 | 31% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $975,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wild Earth Allies Inc | $895,000 | 6 | 4% |
| John Burroughs School | $800,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rossman School | $650,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Wild Canid Survival and Research Center Inc Dba Endangered Wolf Center | $600,000 | 3 | 7% |
| The Caregiver Club | $550,000 | 3 | 74% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas | $537,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Boca Grande United Methodist Church | $400,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
August a Busch III Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Centene Foundation · Dula-Kobusch Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About August a Busch III Charitable Trust
- How much does August a Busch III Charitable Trust give?
- August a Busch III Charitable Trust reported 62 grants totaling $1,754,246 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does August a Busch III Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Education (11%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are August a Busch III Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Missouri Baptist Healthcare Foundation ($2.7M), St Peters Senior Citizens Corporation ($1.8M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($975k).
- Does August a Busch III Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does August a Busch III Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as August a Busch III Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, World Wide Technology Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation.
- Where is August a Busch III Charitable Trust based?
- August a Busch III Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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