Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Gerhart Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $65,820
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $153,580
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Gerhart Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | $1.1M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $1.1M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.1M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.3M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $927k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $900k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cure International Inc | $1,427,290 | 9 | 0% |
| Grand View Hospital | $1,123,390 | 7 | 0% |
| Plumstead Christian School | $896,478 | 9 | 2% |
| Quakertown Christian School | $896,478 | 9 | n/a |
| Crossroads Pregnancy Care | $722,672 | 9 | 21% |
| Joni and Friends | $660,002 | 9 | 0% |
| Penn Foundation Inc | $616,780 | 6 | 1% |
| Camp Men-O-Lan | $612,282 | 9 | n/a |
| Faith Christian Academy | $373,040 | 5 | 1% |
| Doylestown Area Fish | $278,173 | 9 | 45% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cure International Inc | $1,427,290 | 9 | 0% |
| Grand View Hospital | $1,123,390 | 7 | 0% |
| Plumstead Christian School | $896,478 | 9 | 2% |
| Quakertown Christian School | $896,478 | 9 | n/a |
| Crossroads Pregnancy Care | $722,672 | 9 | 21% |
| Joni and Friends | $660,002 | 9 | 0% |
| Penn Foundation Inc | $616,780 | 6 | 1% |
| Camp Men-O-Lan | $612,282 | 9 | n/a |
| Faith Christian Academy | $373,040 | 5 | 1% |
| Doylestown Area Fish | $278,173 | 9 | 45% |
| Manna on Main Street | $263,463 | 9 | 1% |
| Harvey Cedars Bible Conference | $231,930 | 4 | 2% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $151,120 | 6 | n/a |
| Bald Eagle Boys Camp | $116,120 | 3 | 3% |
| Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission | $81,460 | 2 | 1% |
| Cradle of Liberty Council 525 Boy Scouts of America | $75,763 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $75,763 | 5 | 0% |
| Motocross for Christ | $37,580 | 1 | 32% |
| Living Hope Community Church | $26,906 | 1 | n/a |
| Worthwhile Wear Inc | $16,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Kingdom Patrons Inc | $10,970 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($721k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gerhart Family Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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.
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How this is measured
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About Gerhart Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Gerhart Family Charitable Trust give?
- Gerhart Family Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $1,107,970 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gerhart Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Education (25%), International (17%).
- Who are Gerhart Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cure International Inc ($1.4M), Grand View Hospital ($1.1M), Plumstead Christian School ($896k).
- Does Gerhart Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerhart Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gerhart Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eden Bridge Foundation, Penn Community Bank Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is Gerhart Family Charitable Trust based?
- Gerhart Family Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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