Texas · Private foundation
Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $148k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2026
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 24% of the organizations Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 28 | $148k | 7% |
| FY2025 | 29 | $145k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $154k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $160k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $165k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $160k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $151k | 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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $42,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Maris Place | $40,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of King County | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jubilee Women's Center | $39,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Elizabeth Home | $35,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Lighthouse for the Blind Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Farestart | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pike Market Senior Center | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lahai Health | $29,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bread of Life Mission | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fred & Gretel Biel 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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Fales Foundation Trust · Wilkins Charitable Foundation · Medina Foundation · Kawabe Memorial Fund · Washington Federal Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust
- How much does Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust give?
- Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust reported 28 grants totaling $148,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Housing & Shelter (22%), Employment (9%).
- Who are Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Jewish Family Service ($43k), Maris Place ($40k), Boys and Girls Clubs of King County ($40k).
- Does Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
- Where is Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust based?
- Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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