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Defenbaugh 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.

$610k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
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100% of Defenbaugh Charitable Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Independent Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Median grant, FY2025
$610,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$610,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$8.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$610,000

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About Defenbaugh Charitable Trust

How much does Defenbaugh Charitable Trust give?
Defenbaugh Charitable Trust reported 1 grants totaling $610,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Defenbaugh Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Philanthropy (100%).
Does Defenbaugh 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 Defenbaugh Charitable Trust based?
Defenbaugh Charitable Trust 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 1 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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