Illinois · Private foundation
Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $220k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 47
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 | 45 | $215k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $207k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $195k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $248k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $228k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Dayton | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trustees of the Lawrenceville School | $70,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Lexington School Inc | $46,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Marillac St Vincent Family Services Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Centre College | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Kentucky | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Denver | $17,800 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($570k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bertha Lebus 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation · Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc Agy · William T Young Foundation Inc · Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund · Crutcher Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc
How this is measured
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About Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust
- How much does Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust give?
- Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust reported 46 grants totaling $220,099 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 47 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Human Services (14%), Health (11%).
- Who are Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: University of Dayton ($80k), Trustees of the Lawrenceville School ($71k), Lexington School Inc ($47k).
- Does Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bertha Lebus 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 Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc, The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee.
- Where is Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust based?
- Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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