· Private foundation
Donald L Koch 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $90,000 |
| PACE ACADEMY | $45,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $10,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HOUSE AT CHAUTAUQUA | $1,000 |
| LONGYEAR MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its 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.
13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 93% 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
- PAPACE ACADEMY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $265k · revenue +44%
TRINITY COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $196k · revenue +17%- WAWOODWARD ACADEMY INC2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +33%
- TSTHE ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S CHOIRSone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -9%
- EEE3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +27%
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.
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The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
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Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Provide a biblically informed liberal arts education to undergraduate and graduate college students. we strive to offer the highest quality of instruction to prepare students for excellence in further study and careers beyond trinity. all…
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Advocates For Balance At Chautauqua Inc ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S CHOIRS ↗
- Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds E3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald L Koch Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald L Koch Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Stetson University Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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