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C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$801
Largest grant, FY2025
$802
Organizations funded a year
10 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$170k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$8k9%
FY202411$8k9%
FY202311$8k9%
FY202210$10k0%
FY202111$9k18%
FY202012$10k17%
FY201912$10k17%
FY201810$10k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$19kHealth$14kEducation$13kReligion$9kCrime & Legal$9kHousing & Shelter$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$9k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
OR
IA
OH
MO
TN
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cheerful Home Association$9,27390%
Sunset Home$9,27290%
March of Dimes Inc$2,31890%
American Lung Association$2,31890%
Maryville University - St Louis$1,61130%
Quincy University Corporation$96520%
Corban University$75010%
Concordia University Inc$6471n/a
Belmont University$64710%
Cedarville University$31710%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCheerful Home Association: $9,273 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSunset Home: $9,272 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $2,318 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $2,318 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $1,611 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQuincy University Corporation: $965 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCorban University: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $647 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $317 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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About C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee

How much does C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee give?
C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee reported 11 grants totaling $7,511 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (17%), Education (16%).
Who are C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cheerful Home Association ($9k), Sunset Home ($9k), March of Dimes Inc ($2k).
Does C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee based?
C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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