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Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr

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.

$693k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
45
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 26
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentEducationInternationalOther
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 arriving28$692k21%
FY202426$251k50%
FY202316$126k56%
FY20227$63k14%
FY20216$60k33%
FY202011$53k36%
FY201911$73kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$177kHuman Services$97kReligion$85kHealth$74kEducation$60kRecreation & Sports$34kArts & Culture$32kYouth Development$28kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MN
IL
WI
IA
UT
AZ
NM
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family to Family Romanian Outreach Inc$239,000413%
Hope Church$179,0007n/a
Hope 4 Kids International$123,00050%
Theater Works Inc$107,00045%
Honorhealth Foundation$95,00030%
North Valley Christian Academy$65,00050%
Billy's Place Inc$43,50033%
Cm Baseball League$41,00052%
The MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support$25,00022%
Friends of Ohana$20,0001n/a
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family to Family Romanian Outreach Inc$239,000413%
Hope Church$179,0007n/a
Hope 4 Kids International$123,00050%
Theater Works Inc$107,00045%
Honorhealth Foundation$95,00030%
North Valley Christian Academy$65,00050%
Billy's Place Inc$43,50033%
Cm Baseball League$41,00052%
The MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support$25,00022%
Friends of Ohana$20,0001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$19,00030%
Dysart Community Center$19,00031%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc$17,50020%
Utah Royal Kids$17,250225%
Southwest District Kiwanis Foundation Inc$13,00022%
Fostering Heroes Foundation$9,00031%
Lutheran Church Charities Fund$9,00020%
Deep Within Rehab Center Inc$8,00021%
Bemidji State University Alumni and Foundation$7,00020%
Christ Church$5,0001n/a
Family Promise - Greater Phoenix$5,00010%
Jesus Asks Are You Listening$5,0001n/a
Franciscan Renewal Center Inc$5,0001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
Peteys Playground$5,0001n/a
Starry Foundation$5,00012%
The Be Kind People Project Foundation$5,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$5,00020%
The Mission Possible International$4,0002n/a
Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries Inc$3,00010%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$3,0001n/a
The Tia Foundation Inc$3,00011%
Utmd Anderson$2,0002n/a
Marian Central Catholic High School$2,0002n/a
Sun Valley Lodge$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($197k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily to Family Romanian Outreach Inc: $239,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetHope 4 Kids International: $123,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTheater Works Inc: $107,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetHonorhealth Foundation: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Valley Christian Academy: $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBilly's Place Inc: $43,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCm Baseball League: $41,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDysart Community Center: $19,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUtah Royal Kids: $17,250 over 2y, 25% of budgetSouthwest District Kiwanis Foundation Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFostering Heroes Foundation: $9,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLutheran Church Charities Fund: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDeep Within Rehab Center Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBemidji State University Alumni and Foundation: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise - Greater Phoenix: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStarry Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe Be Kind People Project Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRedeeming Life Outreach Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Tia Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSun Valley Lodge: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ37.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · AbbVie Foundation · American Express Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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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About Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr

How much does Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr give?
Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr reported 45 grants totaling $692,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (28%), Human Services (15%), Religion (13%).
Who are Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Family to Family Romanian Outreach Inc ($239k), Hope Church ($179k), Hope 4 Kids International ($123k).
Does Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr 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 Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, Thunderbirds Charities.
Where is Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr based?
Ilse Jahn Bolster Charitable Tr is based in AZ.

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 47 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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