Illinois · Private foundation
Bernauer Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $66k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations Bernauer Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 24 | $66k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $63k | 59% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $62k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $75k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $61k | 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bucknell University | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Life | $26,587 | 5 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Grace Lutheran Church | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church | $6,500 | 2 | n/a |
| The Water Project Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bradley University | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernauer Family Charitable 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: The Raymond C and Linda M Stachowiak Foundation · Nkc Family Foundation · Shodeen Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Bernauer Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Bernauer Family Charitable Trust give?
- Bernauer Family Charitable Trust reported 24 grants totaling $66,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Bernauer Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Religion (19%), Education (16%).
- Who are Bernauer Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Bucknell University ($45k), Young Life ($27k), Blood Cancer United Inc ($24k).
- Does Bernauer Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernauer Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernauer Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Raymond C and Linda M Stachowiak Foundation, Nkc Family Foundation, Shodeen Family Foundation.
- Where is Bernauer Family Charitable Trust based?
- Bernauer Family Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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