Illinois · Private foundation
Emerson Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 88
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 503
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $579k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $103
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 503 to 542
- FY2021 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $45M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 64% of the organizations Emerson Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 60 | $578k | 98% |
| FY2022 | 503 | $19M | 64% |
| FY2021 | 542 | $6.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seton Regional Catholic School | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beyond Housing Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Elyria Schools & Friends Alumni Association | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Niem Phat Buddhist Temple - Chua Niem Phat | $6,275 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Independence Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Geek Partnership Society | $5,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cleveland State University Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boaz House | $3,500 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 868 recipients with no EIN on record ($25M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Emerson Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
About Emerson Charitable Trust
- How much does Emerson Charitable Trust give?
- Emerson Charitable Trust reported 88 itemized grants totaling $578,517, out of $15,905,857 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 503 and 542 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
- What does Emerson Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (5%), Philanthropy (3%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are Emerson Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Seton Regional Catholic School ($400k), Beyond Housing Inc ($100k), Elyria Schools & Friends Alumni Association ($23k).
- Does Emerson Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Emerson Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Emerson Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Verizon Foundation, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353.
- Where is Emerson Charitable Trust based?
- Emerson Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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