Illinois · Private foundation
Grassland 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.
- $940k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 94%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $410,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 94% of the organizations Grassland Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $753k 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 | 19 | $940k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $843k | 94% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $656k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $419k | 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Health Ministries | $790,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Mount Olive Lutheran Church | $260,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Special K Ranch | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| American Lutheran Church | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake Havasu Fellowship Hall Inc | $40,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Adrian College | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lake Havasu Senior Center Inc | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Park County Senior Center | $30,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Havasu Community Health Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hospice of Havasu Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Health Ministries | $790,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Mount Olive Lutheran Church | $260,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Special K Ranch | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| American Lutheran Church | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake Havasu Fellowship Hall Inc | $40,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Adrian College | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lake Havasu Senior Center Inc | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Park County Senior Center | $30,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Havasu Community Health Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hospice of Havasu Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| God's Precious Children Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Lincoln Senior Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vince Grant Hall Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 24% |
| Southwest Chemical Dependency | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Grassland 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.
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How this is measured
About Grassland Trust
- How much does Grassland Trust give?
- Grassland Trust reported 19 grants totaling $940,262 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Grassland Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), International (17%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Grassland Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Global Health Ministries ($790k), Mount Olive Lutheran Church ($260k), Special K Ranch ($100k).
- Does Grassland Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Grassland 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 Grassland Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Grassland Trust based?
- Grassland Trust is based in IL.
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