Missouri · Private foundation
Forster-Powers Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $566k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Forster-Powers Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $566k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $544k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $535k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $445k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $465k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $440k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $431k | 8% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $446k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Teresa's Academy | $415,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Rockhurst University | $320,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rockhurst High School | $310,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Avila University | $235,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heartstrings Community Foundation | $200,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Donnelly College | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Benedictine College | $160,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Jobone | $130,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Los Olivos Cis | $110,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity | $100,500 | 8 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Teresa's Academy | $415,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Rockhurst University | $320,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rockhurst High School | $310,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Avila University | $235,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heartstrings Community Foundation | $200,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Donnelly College | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Benedictine College | $160,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Jobone | $130,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Los Olivos Cis | $110,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity | $100,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Little Sisters of The Poor | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Foundation for Inclusive Religious Education Inc | $50,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Seton Center Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Center for the Visually Impai | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kansas City Rotary Foundation | $35,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Wyandotte Pregnancy Clinic Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Don Bosco Centers | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lalmba Association | $22,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Boys Hope Girls Hope | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Stephens Indian Mission Foundation | $19,800 | 8 | n/a |
| Homes From the Heart Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Fertilitycare Center of Kansas City Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 17% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Forster-Powers Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · The McGee Foundation · McCullough Family Foundation · Joseph M Fahey and Mary Elizabeth Rogers Fahey Foundation Inc · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust · The Sherman Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Horizons · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg
How this is measured
About Forster-Powers Charitable Trust
- How much does Forster-Powers Charitable Trust give?
- Forster-Powers Charitable Trust reported 24 grants totaling $565,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Forster-Powers Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (70%), Religion (9%), Health (8%).
- Who are Forster-Powers Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Teresa's Academy ($415k), Rockhurst University ($320k), Rockhurst High School ($310k).
- Does Forster-Powers Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Forster-Powers Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Forster-Powers Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees, Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Forster-Powers Charitable Trust based?
- Forster-Powers Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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