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Henry a True Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Henry a True 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; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$95k0%
FY202425$80k4%
FY202324$75k0%
FY202224$77k0%
FY202124$86k0%
FY202025$90k0%
FY201925$90k4%
FY201824$75k4%
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$220kPhilanthropy$165kReligion$147kHuman Services$104kHousing & Shelter$67kYouth Development$60kEducation$53kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ohio History Connection$41,50090%
Cents for Shoes$36,0007n/a
Marion Shelter Program Inc$29,00091%
Buckeye Ridge Habitat for Humanity Inc$21,50080%
Marion County Historical Assoc Stengel True Museum Inc$12,75094%
Marion Concert Band$5,0009n/a
Church of the Brethren$4,5009n/a
Emanuel Lutheran Church$4,5009n/a
Wyandot Popcorn Museum Inc$4,50092%
Mobile Meals of Marion County Inc$3,00022%

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($580k), not named here.

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.

Marion Community FoundationOH20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marion Community Foundation · 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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How do I get to Henry a True Trust?

Find your warmest path to Henry a True Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Henry a True Trust

How much does Henry a True Trust give?
Henry a True Trust reported 26 grants totaling $110,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Henry a True Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Philanthropy (19%), Religion (17%).
Who are Henry a True Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ohio History Connection ($42k), Cents for Shoes ($36k), Marion Shelter Program Inc ($29k).
Does Henry a True Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Henry a True Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Henry a True Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marion Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Henry a True Trust based?
Henry a True Trust is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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