Wisconsin · Private foundation
Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $239k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $29,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 | 6 | $160k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $140k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $115k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $160k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $159k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $160k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant Place Foundation | $375,000 | 3 | 17% |
| The Crown Center Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $178,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Saul Mirowitz Jewish School | $103,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Services of St Louis | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Community Center | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Tenufa Bakehila | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.
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 Patriot Foundation · Millstone Foundation · Sanford and Gloria Spitzer Family Foundation · The Chod Family Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust give?
- Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust reported 8 grants totaling $239,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (45%), Philanthropy (29%), International (14%).
- Who are Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Covenant Place Foundation ($375k), The Crown Center Inc ($250k), Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind ($178k).
- Does Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Patriot Foundation, Millstone Foundation, Sanford and Gloria Spitzer Family Foundation.
- Where is Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust based?
- Ephraim Block Family Charitable Trust is based in WI.
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