Missouri · Private foundation
Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 70
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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 | 53 | $1.5M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $2.0M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $1.9M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $2.0M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $1.7M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $1.3M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $1.5M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 54 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manor Park Inc | $1,334,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Bynum School | $627,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Midland College Foundation | $624,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Community Children's Ministry | $417,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Midland Childrens Rehabilitation Center Inc | $405,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Marc Inc | $400,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hospice of Midland Inc | $382,000 | 8 | 1% |
| High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc | $305,000 | 7 | 1% |
| West Texas Food Bank | $300,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Safe Place of the Permian Basin | $285,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 107 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 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: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Permian Basin Area Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Beal Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust
- How much does Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust give?
- Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust reported 53 grants totaling $1,500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Health (20%), Education (14%).
- Who are Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Manor Park Inc ($1.3M), Bynum School ($627k), Midland College Foundation ($624k).
- Does Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Abell-Hanger Foundation, Scharbauer Foundation Inc, Permian Basin Area Foundation.
- Where is Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust based?
- Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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