· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY SERVICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| SAINT ANDREWS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $9,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $6,299 |
| ST EDWARDS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| CENTRE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Dayton2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +14%
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $71k · revenue +1%- LSLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEDICINEone grant, 2022 · $7k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRISON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SCAD RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds KEELING CURVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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