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Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004

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.

$11k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
54%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 22
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$146k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalCivil RightsArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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 arriving10$11k80%
FY202413$9k54%
FY202313$10k54%
FY202216$11k50%
FY202122$17kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$12kHealth$11kHuman Services$9kInternational$5kReligion$4kEducation$4kCrime & Legal$3kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
MD
SC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Legal Aid Services$2,80030%
Yellow Brick Place$2,75032%
Jbi International Inc$2,50040%
Temple El Emeth$2,0001n/a
Congregation Ohev Beth Sholom$2,0001n/a
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$2,00030%
Associated Neighborhood Centers$1,50021%
Jewish Childrens Adoption Network$1,5003n/a
Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past$1,50011%
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra$1,50030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Legal Aid Services: $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYellow Brick Place: $2,750 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetJbi International Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAssociated Neighborhood Centers: $1,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSilver Lining Cancer Fund Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe English Center: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCadence Care Network: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary International - Youngstown Rotary Club: $1,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetStudents Motivated by the Arts Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Mahoning Valley Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERA Western Reserve Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSacramento Food Bank & Family Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Community Kitchen Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYoungstown Blue Coats: $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGreenville Symphony Society Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Way Station: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Warehouse of Mercer County: $500 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 22.

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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.

Community Foundation of the Mahoning ValleyOH30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · Zita M and Joseph Diyorio Foundation · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Trumbull Memorial Health Foundation · The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley

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 Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004

How much does Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 give?
Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 reported 10 grants totaling $10,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Health (19%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Community Legal Aid Services ($3k), Yellow Brick Place ($3k), Jbi International Inc ($3k).
Does Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 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 Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley, Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008, Youngstown Fdn General.
Where is Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 based?
Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004 is based in CA.

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 53 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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