Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Foster Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $204k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Foster Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 32 | $203k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $124k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $185k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $242k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $200k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $375k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mars Family Charitable Foundation | $425,000 | 2 | 99% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc | $32,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Jewish Cemetery & Burial Assoc of Gr Pgh | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $26,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shady Side Academy | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($532k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foster Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Highland Park Community Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
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About Foster Charitable Trust
- How much does Foster Charitable Trust give?
- Foster Charitable Trust reported 33 grants totaling $204,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Foster Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (65%), Arts & Culture (11%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Foster Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Mars Family Charitable Foundation ($425k), The Art Institute of Chicago ($55k), Pittsburgh Cultural Trust ($50k).
- Does Foster Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Foster Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foster Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, Highland Park Community Foundation.
- Where is Foster Charitable Trust based?
- Foster Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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