Delaware · Private foundation
John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $837k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $546,360
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 14
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $837k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $945k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $901k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $805k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $714k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc | $2,281,567 | 5 | 14% |
| Marathon County Historical Society | $630,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Neighbors Place Inc The | $235,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Wausau YMCA Foundation Inc | $155,000 | 5 | 41% |
| The Women's Community Inc | $122,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | $53,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc | $53,500 | 5 | 3% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($672k), 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · The Macdonald Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust
- How much does John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust give?
- John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $837,294 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (71%), Human Services (12%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc ($2.3M), Marathon County Historical Society ($630k), Neighbors Place Inc The ($235k).
- Does John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc, Bell Family Charitable Foundation I, Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation.
- Where is John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust based?
- John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust is based in DE.
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