Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $519k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $46,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- 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 Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 11 | $473k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $279k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $356k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $392k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $273k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $353k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $442k | 82% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $381k | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Service and Children's Aid Society of Venango County | $226,848 | 4 | 3% |
| United Way of Venango County and Titusville Region | $205,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Clarion University Foundation Inc | $162,550 | 2 | 2% |
| Mustard Seed Missions of Venango County | $150,000 | 3 | 36% |
| Franklin YMCA Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grace Learning Center | $125,000 | 4 | 31% |
| Oil City Civic Center Inc | $116,800 | 2 | 23% |
| Open Door Initiative of Oil City | $90,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Child Development Centers Inc | $89,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Venango County Historical Society | $86,750 | 2 | 36% |
Show all 22 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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: Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust · McElhattan Foundation · Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial · Keating Thomas - Ui · Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw · Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation · Eileen J Luce Charitable Trust · Edith C Justus Tuw · Howes-Nelson Charitable Trust · Nelson Eleanor & Rudolph-Char Tr · Trax Virginia S for Charities - Tr · Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable Trust
How this is measured
Compare Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust
- How much does Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust give?
- Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $519,159 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Human Services (15%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Service and Children's Aid Society of Venango County ($227k), United Way of Venango County and Titusville Region ($205k), Clarion University Foundation Inc ($163k).
- Does Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust, McElhattan Foundation, Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial.
- Where is Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust based?
- Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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