Illinois · Private foundation
JS 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.
- $156k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $79,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations JS 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; $2k 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 | 36 | $156k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $64k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $72k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $93k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $120k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $30k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $33k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $28k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $165,140 | 9 | 0% |
| National Geographic Society | $94,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $29,100 | 9 | 0% |
| The Newberry Library | $14,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $14,500 | 9 | 0% |
| THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen | $14,250 | 8 | 8% |
| Classical Music Chicago | $12,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $10,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Yerkes Future Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($155k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
JS Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Richard and Mary L Gray Foundation · The Irving Harris Foundation · The Negaunee Foundation · Zell Family Foundation · John H Hart Foundation · Prince Foundation · Alphawood Foundation
How this is measured
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About JS Charitable Trust
- How much does JS Charitable Trust give?
- JS Charitable Trust reported 36 grants totaling $156,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does JS Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Science & Tech (16%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are JS Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($165k), National Geographic Society ($94k), The Santa Fe Opera ($45k).
- Does JS Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does JS 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 JS Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is JS Charitable Trust based?
- JS Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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