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Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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50% of Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Foundation For Enhancing Communities, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’20
1
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$4,932
Largest grant, FY2022
$4,932
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$5k0%
FY20204$2.8Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$2.8MPhilanthropy$55kArts & Culture$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colgate University$2,000,00011%
President and Trustees of Bates College$500,00010%
Maine College of Art and Design$104,93120%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.

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About Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust

How much does Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust give?
Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust reported 2 grants totaling $9,863 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (98%), Philanthropy (2%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Colgate University ($2.0M), President and Trustees of Bates College ($500k), Maine College of Art and Design ($105k).
Does Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carl Benton Straub 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.
Where is Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust based?
Carl Benton Straub Charitable Trust is based in ME.

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 5 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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