Texas · Private foundation
Formosa Plastics Religious Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $33k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $671k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Formosa Plastics Religious Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 22 | $33k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $31k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $23k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $31k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $33k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $41k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $42k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $43k | 13% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experience Excellence | $11,950 | 7 | 1% |
| Texas Buddhist Association Inc | $11,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Awakening Mind Chan Center Inc | $10,100 | 9 | n/a |
| New Wine Fellowship Inc | $7,950 | 5 | n/a |
| Calhoun County Community Ministries | $7,900 | 8 | n/a |
| Victoria Christian School | $7,160 | 8 | 0% |
| Elijahs Tree | $4,200 | 4 | n/a |
| First Assembly of God | $4,125 | 2 | n/a |
| Shiloh Baptist Church | $3,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $3,375 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experience Excellence | $11,950 | 7 | 1% |
| Texas Buddhist Association Inc | $11,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Awakening Mind Chan Center Inc | $10,100 | 9 | n/a |
| New Wine Fellowship Inc | $7,950 | 5 | n/a |
| Calhoun County Community Ministries | $7,900 | 8 | n/a |
| Victoria Christian School | $7,160 | 8 | 0% |
| Elijahs Tree | $4,200 | 4 | n/a |
| First Assembly of God | $4,125 | 2 | n/a |
| Shiloh Baptist Church | $3,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $3,375 | 3 | n/a |
| Fishermans Chapel | $2,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Baptist Temple Church | $2,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Transformation Church | $2,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Emmanuel Lutheran Church | $2,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Alamo Heights Baptist Church | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Point Comfort Seafarers Center | $1,664 | 2 | n/a |
| Our Lady of the Gulf | $1,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Friendship Bible Church | $1,300 | 1 | n/a |
| St Joseph Catholic Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Joseph Schools Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Peters Baptist Church | $900 | 1 | n/a |
| Redeemer Lutheran Church | $750 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Hands of Jackson County Inc | $500 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($228k), 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.
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About Formosa Plastics Religious Trust
- How much does Formosa Plastics Religious Trust give?
- Formosa Plastics Religious Trust reported 23 grants totaling $32,583 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Formosa Plastics Religious Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (49%), Youth Development (36%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are Formosa Plastics Religious Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Experience Excellence ($12k), Texas Buddhist Association Inc ($11k), Awakening Mind Chan Center Inc ($10k).
- Does Formosa Plastics Religious Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Formosa Plastics Religious Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Formosa Plastics Religious Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Formosa Plastics Religious Trust based?
- Formosa Plastics Religious Trust is based in TX.
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