Missouri · Private foundation
Jay Henges Charitable Trust
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Jay Henges Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 26 | $1.4M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $3.4M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.1M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $937k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $289k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $207k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $74k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Rivers Habitat Alliance | $2,853,500 | 7 | 9% |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $1,981,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Forest Park Forever Inc | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation | $204,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis | $124,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Pedal the Cause | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| College of the Ozarks | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Congregation Temple Israel | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc | $76,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Child Advocacy Center Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($837k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jay Henges 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: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jay Henges Charitable Trust
- How much does Jay Henges Charitable Trust give?
- Jay Henges Charitable Trust reported 29 grants totaling $1,542,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jay Henges Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Arts & Culture (25%), Public Benefit (9%).
- Who are Jay Henges Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Great Rivers Habitat Alliance ($2.9M), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ($2.0M), Forest Park Forever Inc ($400k).
- Does Jay Henges Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jay Henges Charitable Trust 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 Jay Henges Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Commerce Bancshares Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation.
- Where is Jay Henges Charitable Trust based?
- Jay Henges Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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