Minnesota · Private foundation
Helen N Poston Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $105k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- 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 N Poston Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 8 | $95k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $96k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $82k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $82k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $112k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $110k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $111k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $98k | 85% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Community Food Bank | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Interfaith Community Services | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater St Joseph | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Allied Arts Council of St Joseph Missouri | $34,500 | 7 | 1% |
| St Joseph Habitat for Humanity Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Open Door Community Food Kitchen | $15,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Interfaith Community Services Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of Ne Kansas and Nw Missouri Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Community Food Bank | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Interfaith Community Services | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater St Joseph | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Allied Arts Council of St Joseph Missouri | $34,500 | 7 | 1% |
| St Joseph Habitat for Humanity Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Open Door Community Food Kitchen | $15,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Interfaith Community Services Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of Ne Kansas and Nw Missouri Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bartlett Center | $14,750 | 3 | 1% |
| Habitat for Humanity Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Pony Express Museum Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Agriculture Future of America | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($504k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen N Poston 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: Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable · Heartland Regional Medical Center · Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr · The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Helen N Poston Charitable Trust
- How much does Helen N Poston Charitable Trust give?
- Helen N Poston Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $104,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Helen N Poston Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Food & Nutrition (12%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Helen N Poston Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Second Harvest Community Food Bank ($70k), Salvation Army ($50k), Interfaith Community Services ($50k).
- Does Helen N Poston Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen N Poston Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen N Poston Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust, Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is Helen N Poston Charitable Trust based?
- Helen N Poston Charitable Trust is based in MN.
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