New Jersey · Private foundation
Ej Grassmann Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 134
- Grants FY2025
- 152
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 135 to 153
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Ej Grassmann Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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 | 132 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 152 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 135 | $1.5M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 138 | $1.6M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 137 | $1.7M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 153 | $1.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinitas Foundation | $460,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Americas Grow-A-Row | $207,000 | 6 | 1% |
| YWCA of Eastern Union County Inc | $193,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Newtown Macon Inc | $144,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Paper Mill Playhouse | $135,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Navicent Health Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lockerly Arboretum Foundation | $102,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | $101,800 | 6 | 1% |
| St Joseph Social Service Center | $101,500 | 4 | 2% |
| George Street Playhouseinc | $100,400 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 223 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ej Grassmann Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 196 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.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Union Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · George a Ohl Jr Trust · The Summit Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ej Grassmann Trust
- How much does Ej Grassmann Trust give?
- Ej Grassmann Trust reported 134 grants totaling $1,717,305 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 135 and 153 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ej Grassmann Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (15%).
- Who are Ej Grassmann Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Trinitas Foundation ($460k), Americas Grow-A-Row ($207k), YWCA of Eastern Union County Inc ($193k).
- Does Ej Grassmann Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ej Grassmann Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ej Grassmann Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Union Foundation, Investors Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ej Grassmann Trust based?
- Ej Grassmann Trust is based in NJ.
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