Kentucky · Private foundation
Bavarian Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $165k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $97k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Bavarian Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $165k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $175k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $157k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $220k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Opinion Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Foundation in Support of the Franciscan Sisters of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thomas More Society | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Students for Life of America Inc | $34,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation for Applied Conservative Leadership | $15,000 | 2 | 2% |
| St. Thomas Aquinas Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy So | $10,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Institute for Justice | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Americans for Liberty Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Foundation for Gun Rights Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($424k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bavarian Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Donors Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bavarian Foundation Trust
- How much does Bavarian Foundation Trust give?
- Bavarian Foundation Trust reported 25 grants totaling $165,142 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Bavarian Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Civil Rights (7%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Bavarian Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: American Opinion Foundation Inc ($60k), Foundation in Support of the Franciscan Sisters of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary ($50k), Thomas More Society ($36k).
- Does Bavarian Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bavarian Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bavarian Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Network for Good.
- Where is Bavarian Foundation Trust based?
- Bavarian Foundation Trust is based in KY.
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