How much does G O Forward Charitable Trust give?

G O Forward Charitable Trust reported 18 grants totaling $18,625,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does G O Forward Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (63%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (8%).

Who are G O Forward Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts ($5.2M), Schubert Club The ($2.9M), Earthjustice ($2.8M).

Does G O Forward Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does G O Forward Charitable 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 G O Forward Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is G O Forward Charitable Trust based?

G O Forward Charitable Trust is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Private foundation

G O Forward Charitable 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.

$19M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Grants FY2025: 14
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,044,700
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,544,700
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 21; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $303M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations G O Forward Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$18M	24%
FY2024	14	$12M	7%
FY2023	21	$4.0M	5%
FY2022	21	$4.8M	0%
FY2021	21	$4.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$29MArts & Culture$9.4MHealth$3.4MEducation$2.3MPhilanthropy$988kYouth Development$494kAnimals$124k

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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts	$5,206,633	5	5%
Schubert Club The	$2,883,796	5	24%
Earthjustice	$2,798,786	5	1%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$2,705,763	5	0%
Wyoming Outdoor Council	$2,458,742	5	33%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc	$2,458,742	5	4%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$2,335,232	5	0%
Greater Yellowstone Coalition	$2,335,231	5	15%
World Resources Institute	$2,211,721	5	0%
Ocean Conservancy	$2,211,721	5	2%

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All grantees of G O Forward Charitable Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts	$5,206,633	5	5%
Schubert Club The	$2,883,796	5	24%
Earthjustice	$2,798,786	5	1%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$2,705,763	5	0%
Wyoming Outdoor Council	$2,458,742	5	33%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc	$2,458,742	5	4%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$2,335,232	5	0%
Greater Yellowstone Coalition	$2,335,231	5	15%
World Resources Institute	$2,211,721	5	0%
Ocean Conservancy	$2,211,721	5	2%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$2,211,721	5	0%
The Wilderness Society	$2,211,721	5	3%
St John's Health Foundation	$1,000,000	1	8%
Eisenhower Medical Center	$1,000,000	1	0%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Grand Teton National Park Foundation	$988,084	3	4%
Wyoming Wilderness Association	$932,894	3	39%
Science Museum of Minnesota	$823,180	3	1%
Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum	$500,000	1	23%
Avon Old Farms School Inc	$494,042	3	0%
Teton Youth and Family Services	$438,851	3	4%
Jackson Hole Land Trust	$438,851	3	2%
Defenders of Wildlife	$123,511	3	0%
The Trust for Public Land	$123,510	3	0%
Ecoflight	$75,000	1	7%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

G O Forward Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About G O Forward Charitable Trust

How much does G O Forward Charitable Trust give?: G O Forward Charitable Trust reported 18 grants totaling $18,625,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does G O Forward Charitable Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (63%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (8%).
Who are G O Forward Charitable Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts ($5.2M), Schubert Club The ($2.9M), Earthjustice ($2.8M).
Does G O Forward Charitable Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does G O Forward Charitable 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 G O Forward Charitable Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is G O Forward Charitable Trust based?: G O Forward Charitable Trust is based in MN.