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.

Henry a True Trust

Henry a True Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Henry a True Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% 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

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $65k
$10k–50k4 grants · $45k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$15,000
1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$10,000
PALACE CULTURAL ARTS ASSO	$10,000
STENGEL-TRUE MUSEUM	$10,000
MARION JUNIOR SERVICE GUI	$8,500
CENTS FOR SHOES	$6,000
MARION CITY PTA SHOE CL	$6,000
UNITED WAY OF MARION COUNTY	$5,500
LEE STREET PRESBYTERIAN C	$5,000
OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION	$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$4,000
MARION SHELTER PROGRAM I	$4,000
BUCKEYE RIDGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$3,500
YMCA ENDOWMENT FUND	$3,000
RESIDENTIAL HOME ASSN OF	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$740k · 26 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$740k

$3k

Still filing today

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

OH
OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION
9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +18%
BR
BUCKEYE RIDGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $22k · revenue +94%
MC
MARION COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC STENGEL TRUE MUSEUM INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +128%

Funded once

HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MARI
one grant, 2017 · $3k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

7/7

Grantees still filing

6/7

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$672,000Philanthropy$111,500Arts & Culture$41,500Human Services$29,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Henry a True Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry a True Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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