Texas · Private foundation
Joe Menges 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.
- $169k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $169,167
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $169,167
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- 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 Joe Menges 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.
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $169k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $133k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $96k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $162k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $129k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $130k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $105k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Education$924k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Iowa University | $923,592 | 7 | 0% |
About Joe Menges Trust
- How much does Joe Menges Trust give?
- Joe Menges Trust reported 1 grants totaling $169,167 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Joe Menges Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Joe Menges Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Upper Iowa University ($924k).
- Does Joe Menges Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe Menges 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.
- Where is Joe Menges Trust based?
- Joe Menges Trust is based in TX.
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