Missouri · Private foundation
Ed and Claude Fortson 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.
- $430k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $430k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $440k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $440k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $445k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $438k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $335k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Crescent Sexual Assault Center | $380,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Fortson Youth Training Center Inc | $330,000 | 6 | 91% |
| Henry County Scholarship Foundation | $120,000 | 3 | 68% |
| Henry County Cancer Services Inc | $106,000 | 4 | 51% |
| A Friends House Inc | $85,000 | 6 | 1% |
| People First of Henry County Inc | $82,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Connecting Henry Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Remembering Officers Children Inc | $72,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Hampton First Baptist Church | $70,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Crescent Sexual Assault Center | $380,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Fortson Youth Training Center Inc | $330,000 | 6 | 91% |
| Henry County Scholarship Foundation | $120,000 | 3 | 68% |
| Henry County Cancer Services Inc | $106,000 | 4 | 51% |
| A Friends House Inc | $85,000 | 6 | 1% |
| People First of Henry County Inc | $82,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Connecting Henry Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Remembering Officers Children Inc | $72,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Hampton First Baptist Church | $70,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Henry for Music | $21,710 | 5 | n/a |
| Mighty Hero Home Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Ferst Readers Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tennis People Inc | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Flint River Council Inc 95 Scouting America | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Life Radio Ministries Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust
- How much does Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust give?
- Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $430,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Health (20%), Youth Development (20%).
- Who are Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Southern Crescent Sexual Assault Center ($380k), Fortson Youth Training Center Inc ($330k), Henry County Scholarship Foundation ($120k).
- Does Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ed and Claude Fortson 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Taylor Foundation, United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc, William R & Sara Babb Smith Foundation.
- Where is Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust based?
- Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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