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Louis W Ensworth Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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Louis W Ensworth Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$173kReligion$33kRecreation & Sports$27kHuman Services$17kArts & Culture$11k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$827k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$6,000
OLEAN HIGH SCHOOL$6,000
ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE CENTRAL SCHOOL$6,000
ST BONAVENTURE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM$2,000
MT DORA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$1,500
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (THRIFT STORE)$1,500
EASTERN MUSEUM OF MOTOR RACING$1,500
ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH$1,500
LUTERAN CHURCH EXTENSION FUND$1,500
CONCORDIA SEMINARY$1,500
MT DORA CHRISTIAN HOME$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EASTERN MUSEUM OF MOTOR RACING: $5k → 8%OLEAN HIGH SCHOOL: $30k → 16%MT DORA CHRISTIAN HOME: $5k → 10%UMATILLA HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 16%LUTERAN CHURCH EXTENSION FUND: $7k → 11%EASTERN MUSEUM OF MOTOR RACING: $3k → 8%NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $22k → 16%MT DORA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $3k → 10%UMATILLA HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 16%LUTERAN CHURCH EXTENSION FUND: $6k → 11%EASTERN MUSEUM OF MOTOR RACING: $3k → 8%OLEAN HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 16%MT DORA CHRISTIAN HOME: $3k → 10%UMATILLA HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 16%LUTERAN CHURCH EXTENSION FUND: $2k → 11%EASTERN MUSEUM OF MOTOR RACING: $2k → 8%NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $12k → 16%MT DORA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2k → 10%CONCORDIA SEMINARY: $11k → 11%ARCHBISHOP WALSH HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 16%MT DORA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2k → 10%CONCORDIA SEMINARY: $6k → 11%NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $7k → 16%MT DORA CHRISTIAN HOME: $1k → 10%CONCORDIA SEMINARY: $2k → 11%OLEAN HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 16%NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $6k → 16%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (THRIFT STORE): $5k → 16%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (THRIFT STORE): $3k → 16%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (THRIFT STORE): $2k → 16%ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE CENTRAL SCHOOL: $22k → 16%ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE CENTRAL SCHOOL: $12k → 16%ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $11k → 16%ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $6k → 16%ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE CENTRAL SCHOOL: $6k → 16%ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $2k → 16%ST BONAVENTURE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM: $12k → 16%ST BONAVENTURE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM: $7k → 16%ST BONAVENTURE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM: $6k → 16%ST BONAVENTURE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$249k · 12 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$249k
$12k

Still filing today

8%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OH
    OLEAN HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2025 · $47k
  • NL
    NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +45%
  • AC
    ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE CENTRAL SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2025 · $40k

Funded once

  • AW
    ARCHBISHOP WALSH HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OLEAN HIGH SCHOOL: $47,000 · OtherOLEAN HIGH SCHOOLALLEGANY-LIMESTONE CENTRAL SCHOOL: $39,500 · OtherALLEGANY-LIMESTONE CENTRAL SCHOOLST BONAVENTURE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM: $27,000 · OtherST BONAVENTURE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAMCONCORDIA SEMINARY: $18,500 · OtherCONCORDIA SEMINARYST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $18,500 · OtherST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCHLUTERAN CHURCH EXTENSION FUND: $14,000 · OtherLUTERAN CHURCH EXTENSION FUNDARCHBISHOP WALSH HIGH SCHOOL: $11,500 · OtherARCHBISHOP WALSH HIGH SCHOOLEASTERN MUSEUM OF MOTOR RACING: $11,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (THRIFT STORE): $8,500 · OtherMT DORA CHRISTIAN HOME: $8,500 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · OtherNEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $46,000 · EducationNEW LIFE CHRISTIAN S…
Other$214,000Education$46,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $46,000 over 4y, 14% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louis W Ensworth Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis W Ensworth Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 13 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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