Missouri · Private foundation
Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $102k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $31,950
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 18 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $127k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $112k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $106k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $102k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graceland University | $19,412 | 4 | 0% |
| Rockhurst University | $10,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Ave Maria University Inc | $6,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Park University | $6,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Methodist University | $5,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Southwest Baptist University | $3,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Brigham Young University | $2,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Drury University | $2,280 | 2 | 0% |
| Central College | $2,026 | 2 | 0% |
| Hannibal LaGrange University | $1,975 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graceland University | $19,412 | 4 | 0% |
| Rockhurst University | $10,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Ave Maria University Inc | $6,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Park University | $6,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Methodist University | $5,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Southwest Baptist University | $3,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Brigham Young University | $2,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Drury University | $2,280 | 2 | 0% |
| Central College | $2,026 | 2 | 0% |
| Hannibal LaGrange University | $1,975 | 1 | 0% |
| Grand Canyon University | $1,100 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Saint Mary Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Westminster College | $740 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($601k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lester R Birbeck 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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Hardin Memorial Scholarship Foundation · Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · Bour Memorial Scholarship Fund American National Bank of Texas · Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Jack J Isgur Foundation · William M & Ann K Grace Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust
- How much does Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust give?
- Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust reported 18 grants totaling $102,485 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Graceland University ($19k), Rockhurst University ($11k), Ave Maria University Inc ($7k).
- Does Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, Griffin Family Foundation Inc, Hardin Memorial Scholarship Foundation.
- Where is Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust based?
- Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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