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Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$19,721
Largest grant, FY2025
$19,721
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$839k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureOther
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 arriving2$39k100%
FY20242$33k50%
FY20232$34k50%
FY20222$39k0%
FY20213$34k67%
FY20202$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$123kCommunity Improvement$37kEmployment$20kArts & Culture$17kHousing & Shelter$9kFood & Nutrition$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Venango Training & Development Center Inc$19,72111%
Oil City Civic Center Inc$16,92118%
Emmaus Haven of Venango Inc$9,00015%
Oil City Area Meals-On-Wheels Inc$8,0931n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.

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About Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust

How much does Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust give?
Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust reported 2 grants totaling $39,442 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Community Improvement (17%), Employment (9%).
Who are Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Venango Training & Development Center Inc ($20k), Oil City Civic Center Inc ($17k), Emmaus Haven of Venango Inc ($9k).
Does Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust based?
Charles L Suhr Charitable Trust is based in PA.

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 8 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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