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John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$198k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving6$198k17%
FY20245$155k20%
FY20235$180k80%
FY20223$8k33%
FY20215$112k60%
FY20203$58k33%
FY20194$59k25%
FY20185$109k20%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$685kHealth$157kYouth Development$121kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$10kEmployment$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Mary Hardin-Baylor: $600,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOur Hospice House: $60,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetConcordia University Texas: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTemple College Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTemple Community Clinic: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBelton Christian Youth Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $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 8.

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.

E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter FoundationPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust

How much does John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust give?
John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust reported 6 grants totaling $198,333 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (70%), Health (16%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Mary Hardin-Baylor ($600k), Our Hospice House ($60k), Concordia University Texas ($50k).
Does John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust based?
John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust is based in TX.

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 17 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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