New York · Private foundation
Major Family 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.
- $312k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $404k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations Major Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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 | 4 | $312k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $185k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $43k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $73k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $125k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $161k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $517k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $522k | 86% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $900,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pleasantville Community Synagogue | $97,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Rogue Action Center | $46,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Klamath Forest Alliance | $38,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rogue Climate | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Civil Liberties Defense Center | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($886k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Major Family 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: The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Seeding Justice · Clif Family Foundation · The Healy Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Major Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Major Family Charitable Trust give?
- Major Family Charitable Trust reported 4 grants totaling $311,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Major Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), Arts & Culture (6%), Community Improvement (5%).
- Who are Major Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ($900k), Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc ($120k), Pleasantville Community Synagogue ($97k).
- Does Major Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Major Family 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 Major Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation.
- Where is Major Family Charitable Trust based?
- Major Family Charitable Trust is based in NY.
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