Missouri · Private foundation
Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $138k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 | 15 | $138k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $106k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $106k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $93k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peterson Outdoors Ministries | $104,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Missouri Baptist Children's Home | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lamar Sheltered Workshop Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Carthage Crisis Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| International Missionary Fellowship | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jasper Lasting Legacy Foundation Inc | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bright Futures Connections for Success | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($267k), 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc
How this is measured
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About Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust
- How much does Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust give?
- Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust reported 15 grants totaling $138,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Religion (11%), Health (10%).
- Who are Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Peterson Outdoors Ministries ($104k), Missouri Baptist Children's Home ($30k), Lamar Sheltered Workshop Inc ($15k).
- Does Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc.
- Where is Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust based?
- Fortner Charitable Foundation Trust is based in MO.
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