Texas · Private foundation
Eugene Straus Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $110k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- 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 Eugene Straus Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 | 8 | $110k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $93k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $80k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $85k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $75k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $90k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Presbyterian Church | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mercy Street | $45,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Aberg Center for Literacy | $40,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The Association for Independent Living | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Lumin Education | $27,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts | $20,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Dallas 24 Hour Club Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Momentous Institute | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Akibayavneh Academy | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eugene Straus 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: Hillcrest Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Perot Foundation
How this is measured
About Eugene Straus Charitable Trust
- How much does Eugene Straus Charitable Trust give?
- Eugene Straus Charitable Trust reported 8 grants totaling $110,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Eugene Straus Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Health (21%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are Eugene Straus Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: First Presbyterian Church ($45k), Mercy Street ($45k), Aberg Center for Literacy ($40k).
- Does Eugene Straus Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Eugene Straus Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Eugene Straus Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillcrest Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Hoblitzelle Foundation.
- Where is Eugene Straus Charitable Trust based?
- Eugene Straus Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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