Florida · Private foundation
Magnus 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.
- $345k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
73% of Magnus Charitable Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Magnus Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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 | 11 | $95k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $107k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $321k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $629k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $560k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $398k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $212k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $266k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosecrance Foundation Inc | $155,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $57,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Imerman Angels | $43,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pope John Paul II Catholic School | $30,352 | 4 | n/a |
| Innocence Project of Texas | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Medex Foundation | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Persecution Project Foundation | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Cerebral Palsy Seguin of Greater Chicago | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosecrance Foundation Inc | $155,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $57,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Imerman Angels | $43,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pope John Paul II Catholic School | $30,352 | 4 | n/a |
| Innocence Project of Texas | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Medex Foundation | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Persecution Project Foundation | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Cerebral Palsy Seguin of Greater Chicago | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Suburban Sugar Land Women | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aerial Recovery | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $1,230 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Magnus 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: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Magnus Charitable Trust
- How much does Magnus Charitable Trust give?
- Magnus Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $345,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Magnus Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Education (44%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
- Who are Magnus Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rosecrance Foundation Inc ($155k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($58k), Imerman Angels ($43k).
- Does Magnus Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Magnus 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 Magnus Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Magnus Charitable Trust based?
- Magnus Charitable Trust is based in FL.
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